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The family research space is crowded. Much of what gets produced starts with a conclusion and works backward.
IFS is the exception.
In any given month we are cited by The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Wire... and all points in between.
IFS publishes findings based on what the data says, not political ideology.
Our independence is not incidental. It is a commitment to truth and it is why a citation from IFS holds up in ways that citations from ideologically captured sources do not.
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