5 Minutes for Families

The Arizona State Capitol Rose Garden was warm on Tuesday morning. The legislators, the pastors, the ministry partners, they all knew the data was going to be sobering. What they did not fully know was how much hope was about to be poured out from that podium. Senate...

Renewing Arizona Families: Join Us Tuesday Night Behind every Arizona statistic about poverty, education, and child welfare, there is a quieter story about family. On Tuesday, Center for Arizona Policy (CAP) will release the Renewing Arizona Families report in...

Picture a quiet ESA family in north Phoenix. Their daughter spent three years falling behind in a one-size-fits-all classroom, coming home in tears, convinced she could not learn. Today she attends a small school where teachers know her name, her faith is honored, and...

The most underused tool for fighting poverty in Arizona isn't a new program. It's a wedding ring. Recently, Center for Arizona Policy and the Institute for Family Studies released the 2026 Family Structure Index, a national study that ranks Arizona’s family structure...

Last week brought two major court victories for families, and the states that spent years fighting them are now paying the price—literally. For Arizona parents, it was a week worth celebrating. SCOTUS Rules for Counselors and Families, 8-1 On March 31, the U.S....

On Tuesday, Meta lost in New Mexico. On Wednesday, Meta and YouTube lost in California. Meta says it plans to appeal. Some days Big Tech just wants to move to Australia. Too bad Australia banned kids from social media. The losses were not small. A Santa Fe jury...

Educational freedom is under a two-front assault. Here’s what you need to know—and what you can do. I have a bracket filled out and a No. 1 seed I am trying not to get my hopes up about. Wildcats fans know better. But it is March, and you cannot help yourself (Bear...

The Supreme Court just told California—and every state—that it cannot cut parents out of their own children’s lives. Imagine sending your daughter to school one morning—and learning, a year later in a hospital room, that the school had spent every day building her an...

Fox Varian will never breastfeed the children she hopes to have one day. At 16, doctors convinced her she was a boy and removed her breasts. Last week, a New York jury handed her $2 million and called it what it was: malpractice. The tide is turning. This verdict...

Last Friday, I had the opportunity to attend the 52nd annual March for Life.  Tens of thousands gathered on the National Mall, united by a horizon of hope—a vision for a future where every human life, from conception to natural death, is protected and cherished. Vice...