40% and Rising: The Single-Parent Crisis in America
💔 Marriage & Family ← Back to All Articles Forty percent of American children are now born to unmarried parents. […]
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Corporate Ethics Collapse: When Business Stopped Caring About Integrity
🏛 Civic Life ← Back to All Articles One in five American employees reports feeling pressured to compromise their ethical
Public Safety
Youth Delinquency: The Early Warning Signal Society Keeps Ignoring
🔒 Crime & Safety ← Back to All Articles After decades of steady decline, juvenile violent crime arrests jumped 9.9%
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Academic Dishonesty: How America Stopped Caring About Truth in Education
🏛 Civic Life ← Back to All Articles Between 75% and 98% of college students admit to having cheated at
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America’s Alcohol Problem: The Addiction We Normalized
🏥 Public Health ← Back to All Articles Alcohol kills more than 175,000 Americans every year — more than fentanyl,
Faith & Society
Sports Betting’s Explosive Growth and the Addiction Crisis Nobody Planned For
🏥 Public Health ← Back to All Articles When the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on sports betting
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Fatherless America: The Crisis No One Will Name
💔 Marriage & Family ← Back to All Articles More than 18 million American children — one in four —
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Violent Crime in America: What the Media Won’t Tell You
🔒 Crime & Safety ← Back to All Articles After decades of decline, violent crime rates in America’s major cities
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The War on Police: How Anti-Law Enforcement Culture Is Costing Lives
🔒 Crime & Safety ← Back to All Articles Society grants extraordinary trust to those who work with its most
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America’s Trust in Government: The Collapse Nobody Wants to Admit
🏛 Civic Life ← Back to All Articles The April 2026 Moral Decay Index score of 62.5 out of 100
Public Safety
The Opioid Crisis: How America Got Hooked, Who Profited, and What It Says About Us
💊 Substance Abuse ← Back to All Articles More Americans have died from opioid overdoses in the last twenty-five years
Current Events
Gunfire at the Dinner Table
🚨 Current Events Gunfire at the Dinner Table: When Civic Space Is No Longer Safe The Moral Decay Index ·
Family
THE ECONOMICS OF DIVORCE: HOW FINANCIAL STRESS DESTROYS FAMILIES
💔 Family The Hidden Cost of Divorce: What the Data Says About Children’s Outcomes The Moral Decay Index · April
Public Safety
When Protectors Become Predators
🚔 Public Safety When Protectors Become Predators: The Betrayal of Institutional Trust The Moral Decay Index · April 21, 2026
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Strangers Next Door: The Collapse of Social Trust in American Life
🏠 Community Breakdown ← Back to All Articles Trust is the invisible infrastructure of civilization. Markets depend on it. Democracy
Digital Culture
SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE SEXUALIZATION OF ADOLESCENCE
📱 Digital Culture Social Media’s Quiet War on Youth Mental Health and Moral Formation The Moral Decay Index · April
Faith & Society
America’s Faith Crisis
✝️ Faith & Society Why the Decline in Church Attendance Is About More Than Religion The Moral Decay Index ·
Education
America Is Failing Its Own Children
🎓 Education Dropout Rates in Urban Schools: A Crisis Playing Out in Slow Motion The Moral Decay Index · April
Institutions
Power Without Integrity: The Collapse of Leadership in America
🏛️ Institutions Leadership Integrity and the Erosion of Public Trust in America The Moral Decay Index · April 1, 2026
Public Safety
The Violent Crime Spike: What the Data Shows and What It Means
🔒 Public Safety ← Back to All Articles After decades of decline, violent crime rates in America’s major cities began