Government programs that claim to support families actually cut fathers out of the picture—and that results in broken families and higher poverty rates, according to Delano Squires.

The Heritage Foundation hosted the director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center on Tuesday to lead a panel discussion titled “Invisible Men: How Guaranteed Income Programs for New Moms Diminish Dads,” based on Squires’ latest book.

Squires and three other speakers addressed how welfare programs incentivize single-mother homes and how the black community, in particular, has suffered from a lack of attention to the importance of fathers.

“Fathers are not, by definition, an attachment,” Anthony B. Bradley of the Acton Institute said. “They are crucial to the thriving of children. And if we want healthy families, healthy communities, and healthy societies, we have a duty to invest in fathers.”

Most physical and behavioral issues are the result of absent fathers, according to Bradley. Fatherless children have a higher likelihood of juvenile delinquency, drug addiction, cancer, diabetes, and even an untimely onset of puberty. 

Martin Brown, former assistant secretary of health and human resources in Virginia, said that he discovered while working in welfare that his state’s social policies “limited the ability of the dad to even be in their home.”

“When you look at social policy, either the child or the mom is the recipient and not the family,” Brown said. “And so, we change the model from the child being the recipient of the government’s protection, or the mom being the recipient of the government’s largess, to the family unit, and by changing that goal, you’re going to change the outcomes, and so we focus on that as well.”

When a married couple files jointly, their tax breaks should increase rather than decrease, according to James Jackson, CEO of Rooted in Healing. The IRS should not financially incentivize single motherhood and having children outside of marriage.

“We shouldn’t just throw money at distress in the community,” Jackson said. “We should throw money in areas where we’re promoting good, where we’re promoting things like marriage, we’re promoting things like strong families.”

But government policy won’t be enough to promote long-lasting marriages and good fathers. People have to see good marriages so that they desire to emulate them and have an example to follow.

Bradley suggested that black families thrived the most in what he referred to as “‘The Cosby Show’ era” because television programs such as “The Jeffersons” and “Good Times” celebrated family life and demonstrated both the difficulties and the joys of marriage.

When author Joy Jones worked as a substitute elementary school teacher in Washington, D.C., in 2006, several boys said that when they grew up, they wanted to be fathers, according to Squires. But when Jones offered to bring in couples who could talk about marriage and having children, the boys were “unenthused.”

“One told her plainly, ‘We’re not interested in the part about marriage, only about how to be good fathers,’” Squires said. “Another boy explained their stance with five words and jaw-dropping candor: ‘Marriage is for white people.’”

In Washington, D.C., 77% of black children are born to unmarried parents, whereas 93% of white children are born to married parents, according to Squires. But it’s not just the black community that needs a better understanding of marriage. It’s the whole country.

People today think of marriage as a capstone and a crowning achievement of adulthood, which is the opposite of what it should be, according to Bradley.

“It’s the beginning of a good life. It’s not that you live a good life and then get married,” Bradley said. “You actually use marriage to ground and shape and structure a life that is characterized by flourishing. And I want all children, regardless of their income level, to see that as an aspiration above career and above the acquisition of stuff.”

Social media, film, and music will help promote fatherhood and marriage. But ultimately, the responsibility to raise future fathers falls on families rather than on welfare programs and pop culture.

“We need to actually disperse the work and put these young men and young women in homes with people,” Bradley said. “Let them come over for dinner, take them on vacation with you, let them see your family in action.”

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Earlier this spring, the International Olympic Committee released a new policy on protecting women’s sports in future games. The committee concluded that “for all disciplines on the Sports Programme of an IOC Event, including individual and team sports, eligibility for any Female Category is limited to Biological Females.” 

The IOC’s rationale was very thorough and scientific. The committee found that “to protect fairness in sports and events that rely on strength, power, and/or endurance, as well as safety particularly in contact sports, it is necessary and adequate to base eligibility for competition on biological sex.”  

The IOC’s new policy should be applauded, yet it came on the backs of decisive and unapologetic leadership from President Donald Trump, former female athlete Riley Gaines, and many others. 

For the vast majority of Americans, this finding was celebrated. Most people still use science and common sense to drive everyday life, including the line between men’s and women’s sports.  

A 2025 NBC News Stay Tuned Poll showed that 75% of respondents disagreed with biological male athletes competing in female sports. In a January 2025 Ipsos survey, 94% of Republicans, 67% of Democrats, and 64% of independents also indicated their preference for protecting the integrity of women’s sports. 

While the IOC and the majority of the American public may agree on the scientific facts behind safeguarding women’s sports, many elected Democrats around the nation, including in my own state of Arizona, do not.  

It was unfortunate to see that while only a minority of registered Democrats across the nation think boys should be able to play in girls sports, 100% of Arizona’s out-of-touch liberal legislators voted to allow boys in girls sports.  

These elected Democrats are holding on to crazy, unscientific, and dangerous fantasies. They would rather jeopardize the safety of girls and women than dare to hurt the feelings of men pretending to be women. 

The issue transcends women’s sports; it has included a malicious desire to allow men into women’s private spaces like bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms. Across the country, Democrats have continually blurred the lines between men and women and what we have historically held sacred in this country.  

Again, most people do not believe that a biological man should be allowed to walk into a woman’s restricted area. Yet this has been happening for years and celebrated by the Left. 

The ultimate gaslighting is telling a boy that he is a girl or that he can invade girls’ private spaces and arenas. I can’t wake up one day and decide I want to identify as a cat—no matter how much I match my appearance to our feline friends. If I did so, then people would rightly think I had lost my mind. But this is effectively what has been happening around America. People are showing their insanity by working to bend the rules of biology. 

That’s why, as president of the Arizona State Senate, I’ve refused to capitulate to the crazy and dangerous ideas of the Left—and I’ve gone on the offensive for what’s right.  

I’ve led the charge on safeguarding girls bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports. I’ve even spearheaded the defense of Arizona’s commonsense law protecting the integrity of women’s sports, taking our case (Jane Doe v. Warren Petersen) all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States.  

Currently, the Supreme Court is considering two of these women’s sports cases (from West Virginia and Idaho), and the forthcoming opinion will decide the fate of other laws being held up in federal litigation, including Arizona’s.  

In fact, I was sitting in the Supreme Court next to Attorneys General John McCuskey and Raúl Labrador during the oral arguments for this case at the beginning of the year. It was sadly unsurprising to hear that some of the justices didn’t know the biological definition of a woman. Fortunately, though, for the rest of real America, most of the justices did know the biological definition of a woman—and I believe we will receive a 6-3 ruling in favor of science and common sense. 

Unfortunately for Arizonans—especially girls and women—our state has a Democrat governor and attorney general. Both are unwilling to listen to the majority of reasonable people and stand for the integrity of women’s sports or the decency of privacy in bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms.  

Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed several reasonable attempts by the Republican-led Arizona Legislature to protect women, while Attorney General Kris Mayes has been absent throughout the process to defend Arizona’s Save Women’s Sports Act. 

As the IOC found in creating its new policy for future Olympic Games, “biological sex, which is divided into categories (Male and Female, based on their reproductive biology, including their sex chromosomes, gonads and hormones), is distinct from gender identity, which is a person’s sense of themselves as a woman or a man or neither/non-binary.”  

This finding didn’t used to be controversial at all, and it still isn’t in most American circles. The problem is that we’ve allowed a small (though growing) number of radicals to influence our policies across our states, nation, and world, leading to chaos and insanity about unalterable scientific realities. 

Though this debate has been raging now for several years, we are still in the early stages of the war over women’s sports and private spaces. We cannot lose this battle or allow future generations of Americans to grow up in a new normal, where boys and men are allowed unfettered access to girls’ and women’s restricted areas or sports.  

That’s why I’m fighting every day to protect women’s sports and private spaces. 

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