{"id":146083,"date":"2026-06-23T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146083"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:49:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:49:39","slug":"ifs-fathers-hope-and-working-class-mens-discontent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146083","title":{"rendered":"(IFS) Fathers, Hope, and Working-Class Men&#8217;s Discontent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/fathers-hope-and-working-class-mens-discontent\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Young working-class men are significantly less happy &amp; hopeful than their college-educated peers:<br><br>&#x2714;&#xfe0f; 1\/3 of that &quot;hope gap&quot; traces back to a single variable: the quality of their relationship with their father.<br><br>New <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FamStudies?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FamStudies<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DBuVi51HBd\">https:\/\/t.co\/DBuVi51HBd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BkBt2hSGqd\">pic.twitter.com\/BkBt2hSGqd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BradWilcoxIFS\/status\/2069418518940901452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it all. Young working-class men are significantly less happy &amp; hopeful than their college-educated peers: &#x2714;&#xfe0f; 1\/3 of that &quot;hope gap&quot; traces back to a single variable: the quality of their relationship with their father. New @FamStudies: https:\/\/t.co\/DBuVi51HBd pic.twitter.com\/BkBt2hSGqd<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146083\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,101,168,104,98,125,177,129,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family","category-men","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146086,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146083\/revisions\/146086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}