Amber Lapp is a research fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, a contributing writer at American Compass, and co-investigator of the Love and Marriage in Middle America Project, a qualitative research inquiry into how working-class young adults form relationships and families. She and her husband David live in a small town in southwestern Ohio with their five children. Her writing has appeared in National Review, First Things, USA Today, The Federalist, Comment Magazine, and The Atlantic Online.