{"id":2533782,"date":"2026-01-12T15:33:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heritage-attempts-reset-with-marriage-and-family-report\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:35:08","slug":"heritage-attempts-reset-with-marriage-and-family-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heritage-attempts-reset-with-marriage-and-family-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage attempts reset with marriage and family report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fheritage-attempts-reset-with-marriage-and-family-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2533782&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Heritage Foundation is trying to shift attention from recent internal turmoil by promoting a new policy paper, &#8220;Saving america by Saving the Family,&#8221; that urges the White House to prioritize boosting marriage and childbirth among heterosexual couples. Citing a U.S. birthrate of 1.59 children per woman-below the 2.1 replacement level-the report calls the decline a potential demographic crisis and recommends policies such as <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >child-focused tax incentives<\/a> (including revising the child Tax Credit),a &#8220;marriage bootcamp,&#8221; a uniform day of rest with limited commercial activity,discouraging online dating,and an executive order to review federal rules for family impacts. Heritage president Kevin Roberts said the report reflects years of work and that discussions with the governance and Congress have been productive, though he acknowledged uncertainty about whether the White House will issue an executive order. The push comes as Heritage faces reputational challenges after staff departures and controversy tied to comments defending a Tucker Carlson interview with Nick Fuentes; the group also remains committed to protecting Hyde Amendment language in health legislation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Heritage Foundation attempts to reset narrative with marriage and family report<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2466197\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The beleaguered <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/heritage-foundation\/\">Heritage Foundation<\/a> is attempting to recenter its narrative beyond recent departures by focusing on a new policy report on how the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\">White House<\/a> can boost <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/marriage\/\">marriage<\/a> and childbirth rates among heterosexual couples in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4413798\/heritage-foundation-prioritize-marriage-family-new-report\/\">&ldquo;Saving America by Saving the Family&rdquo; paper <\/a>urged the Trump administration to rebuild the American family through tax credits that incentivize more children, creating a &ldquo;marriage bootcamp,&rdquo; supporting a &ldquo;uniform day of rest,&rdquo; limiting commercial activity, and discouraging online dating.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/4415060\/florida-lieutenant-governor-enters-gubernatorial-race-succeed-desantis\/\">Florida lieutenant governor enters gubernatorial race to succeed DeSantis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4414993\/ms-now-hypocrisy-maduro-capture-joe-concha\/\">MS Now&#8217;s &#8216;hypocrisy&#8217; over Maduro capture needs to be &#8216;called out&#8217;: Joe Concha<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4414759\/mary-peltola-campaign-puts-lisa-murkowski-tough-endorsement-spot\/\">Peltola campaign puts Murkowski in tough endorsement spot<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;This is the first of what will be many papers on this topic, and I say many because this is a potentially existential crisis, to use a phrase that I try not to use too much,&rdquo; Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said on Monday during a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Marriage and birth rates in the U.S. have fallen to a&nbsp;record low of 1.59 lifetime births per woman, below the 2.1 needed for population replacement, according <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/marriage-and-family\/report\/saving-america-saving-the-family-foundation-the-next-250-years\">to the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Demographically speaking, the United States will have passed the point of no return in which its population can reproduce itself, and therefore we will be relying exclusively on perhaps technology, perhaps on immigration,&rdquo; Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p>The Heritage Foundation, which also created the Project 2025 blueprint, saw an exodus of more than a dozen staffers last month as they decamped to join former Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-pence\/\">Mike Pence<\/a>&lsquo;s group, Advancing American Freedom. The group has seen several other departures after Roberts defended Tucker Carlson&rsquo;s interview with the controversial Nick Fuentes, who has espoused antisemitic rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>The drama over how the conservative movement <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4074415\/vance-choppy-waters-tpusa-keep-together-maga-2028\/\">navigates antisemitism overshadowed<\/a> the conservative&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/turning-point-usa\/\">Turning Point USA<\/a>&nbsp;AmericaFest event last month. <\/p>\n<p>Roberts did not comment on the controversy during the Monday press briefing, but instead claimed that the Heritage Foundation had been working on the marriage and family report for years before the <em>Washington Post<\/em> published <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2025\/09\/03\/heritage-foundation-parents-children-birth\/\">an executive summary<\/a> in September and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/01\/08\/heritage-report-promote-marriage-births\/\">reported<\/a> on the &ldquo;Saving America by Saving the Family&rdquo; paper last week.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As Congress was coming back in in January, as the administration was taking a very quick, short breath after a tremendous year of policy achievement, we thought the timing for early January would be perfect,&rdquo; Roberts said in response to questioning from the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4413798\/heritage-foundation-prioritize-marriage-family-new-report\/\">HERITAGE FOUNDATION CALLS ON US TO PRIORITIZE MARRIAGE AND FAMILY IN NEW REPORT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been working on this paper for two and a half or three years, and the reason it&rsquo;s taken that long is because it&rsquo;s such a large problem with a lot of complicated, overlapping, thorny issues that we have to sift through,&rdquo; Roberts also said. <\/p>\n<p>The administration has branded itself as a pro-family while also keeping the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-willing-to-lay-our-lives-down-inside-the-effort-to-save-babies-at-planned-parenthoods-front-doors\/\" title=\"\u2018We\u2019re Willing To Lay Our Lives Down\u2019: Inside The Effort To Save Babies At Planned Parenthood\u2019s Front Doors\">anti-abortion movement<\/a> at arm&rsquo;s length. President Donald Trump shocked conservatives last week when he urged House Republicans to be &ldquo;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4407991\/trump-airs-grievances-preaches-healthcare-midterm-focus-hyde\/\">flexible<\/a>&rdquo;&nbsp;on the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funds from paying for abortion services.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You want to turn this thing? You work on Favored Nations, you work on borders, you work on all of the things that we talked about, but now you take the healthcare issue away from them,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;But you&rsquo;ve got to be flexible on Hyde.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Heritage, like most conservatives and antiabortion groups, remained unequivocally in support of keeping Hyde Amendment language in any legislation that Congress pushes forward to extend the Affordable Care Act&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-announces-official-1-75-trillion-build-back-better-proposal\/\" title=\"Biden Announces Official .75 Trillion Build Back Better Proposal\">premium tax credits<\/a> this month. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t believe the Hyde Amendment should ever be watered down &hellip; and have been very active in that,&rdquo; Roberts said. &ldquo;Donald Trump is the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-worthy-recipient-pro-life-group-names-trump-pro-life-person-of-the-year\/\" title=\"\u201cA Worthy Recipient\u201d- Pro-Life Group Names ... Pro-Life \u201cPerson Of The Year\u201d\">pro-life president<\/a> in the history of this country. And we celebrate that as well.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Among the policy recommendations that Heritage is pushing is for Trump to sign an executive order that explicitly asks where new federal rules or laws help or hurt the American family. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There is a score of federal policies, in tax policy, in safety net programs that actually disincentivize marriage. We want to correct all of this, said Roberts. &ldquo;We want to be sure that we take some opportunities with the federal tax Child Tax Credit, which Heritage was a pioneer of many decades ago, and revise that so that we can incentivize marriage as well.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Roberts said he was &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-fcc-chairman-nominee-aiming-to-prioritize-combating-tech-censorship-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"...\u2019s FCC chairman nominee aiming to prioritize combating tech censorship - ...\">pretty confident&#038;rdquo<\/a>; that the Trump administration would be moving forward with implementing Heritage&rsquo;s recommendations and that conversations on Capitol Hill &ldquo;have gone exceedingly well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The reason for that is the rhetoric, the good rhetoric from the administration, including the president himself, has signified that they understand that this is a civilizational problem,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;As we see it, our job, for any elected officials, [ is to give them] a set of policy proposals that they can chew on.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Roberts also conceded that the White House&rsquo;s stance on issuing an executive order based on Heritage&rsquo;s report is uncertain. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s possible that the administration has one of the works. It&rsquo;s possible that they don&rsquo;t,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage pivots to marriage, family policy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2658,"featured_media":2533783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP24340705589731.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[65605,37308,36848,70720,36754],"class_list":["post-2533782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-conservative-think-tank","tag-family-values","tag-heritage-foundation","tag-marriage-policy","tag-social-policy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP24340705589731.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533786,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533782\/revisions\/2533786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2533783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}