Mission Statement: Reframe the Conversation

The family is the basic cell of society with a unique role in human affairs. The strength of a nation relies on the strength of its families. Yet the family in the United States, due to a combination of social, educational and policy influences, has been disintegrating for decades. This does not bode well for our country. 

What the country needs is a programmatic legislative agenda recognizing the family, the union of husband and wife for their mutual benefit and the procreation and education of children, as the single greatest contributor to the cohesiveness of our social order and the nation; more important than GDP growth or power projection overseas.

The American Family Project is dedicated to piecing together such a legislative agenda to put the family at the center of public policy discussions. Armed with arguments from the past and experience from the present, we

• defend the traditional family with a combination of carefully reasoned policy recommendations in line with our Statement of Principles.
• unpack complex and often obscure legislative and judicial rulings that affect the everyday lives of families and suggests changes.

We do this by::

• Publish our Congressional Family Sentiment Scorecard every six months scoring votes in the House of Representatives as Pro-Family or Anti-Family
• Assist the Congressional Family Caucus to carry out its mission of identifying and promoting the interests of the family.
• promote education, research and conferences in our Interest Areas.

We hope that within a few election cycles we will see a bipartisan pro-family discussion in Congress and around the country that will reframe morality and the political discussion.