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Rachel Sheffield

Rachel Sheffield

Rachel Sheffield is a policy analyst in the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation and co-author, with Robert Rector, of “Understanding Poverty in the United States.”

What’s Driving the Marriage Divide?

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Although economic factors certainly play a role in the growing gap in marriage rates between higher income, college-educated Americans and those with lower levels of education and income, the impact of changing cultural mores should not be underestimated.

Reconnecting an Unbound Generation

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The answer to our culture’s dramatic increase in out-of-wedlock births and children raised by single parents is not to lower the bar further. Rather than promoting “planned parenting,” we should work to build a culture of marriage.

Hooking Up, Shacking Up, and Saying “I Do”

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Despite the lack of cultural support for positive practices that help couples toward healthy marriage relationships, the good news is that individuals have control over their relationship choices.

Building Strong Marriages, One at a Time

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If healthy marriage is the basis of a strong society, it is worth every effort to strengthen it. Marriage education should supplement other efforts to address social problems.

The War on Poverty at Fifty: How to Craft Policy to Help America’s Poor

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Government may be able to provide material assistance, but it has failed to address the deeper causes of poverty. Worse, it has discouraged the most important defenses against poverty in America—work and marriage.
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