Overview
- A new Heritage Foundation report urges federal, state, and local policies that promote heterosexual marriage and larger families as a national priority.
- Recommendations include expanded tax benefits such as a proposed Family and Marriage credit, elimination of marriage penalties, and support for at-home caregiving alongside paid childcare options.
- The paper outlines marriage preparation programs run with nonprofits and churches, proposes incentives tied to marriage and childrearing modeled on Trump-era investment accounts, and calls for stricter approaches to divorce.
- Authors press for housing and economic shifts linked to family formation, such as ending the Fed’s mortgage-backed securities purchases and phasing out rent control at the local level.
- A draft appendix reported by the Washington Post lists more extreme, exploratory concepts not formally endorsed, while the proposals overall remain recommendations rather than enacted policy.