About Us

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Skyline Research Institute

Founded in 2020, Skyline Research Institute (SRI) provides educational opportunities and resources for lifelong learners to recognize, understand, and analyze family influences in contemporary life. We collaborate with educators, policy experts, researchers, and professionals across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

We seek to equip the next generation and prepare visionary leaders with the skills needed to confront the negative consequences of illiteracy about the family through training in education and the professions.

Vision

A Renaissance of the Family

Our vision is to encourage a renaissance of successful marriages and family life in which all human life is valued and families flourish.

With improved family literacy, people of all ages will be able to see how family influences are found in all dimensions of culture; how important stable family life is to individual and social well-being; and that world religions have a shared understanding about the importance of the family.

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Rising to the Challenge

The challenges facing the next generation are immense and require fresh thinking and creative collaboration across all sectors of society.

Deeper understanding of the power of families is an untapped resource with remarkable generative power.

Improving public understanding about the value of families in our world will require the collective wisdom, collaboration, and resources of engaged and responsive individuals who are passionate about fortifying families.

OUR MISSION

1. Foster multidisciplinary collaboration among family studies scholars, educators, and policymakers to address societal challenges through a holistic, family-centered lens.

2. Equip
learners of all ages with the skills to access, analyze, evaluate, and apply family-related knowledge across diverse fields of study and professional practice.

3. Strengthen understanding of the family’s central role in individual and societal well-being by countering misconceptions and cultural messages that contribute to family illiteracy.

4. Advance
intergenerational family literacy by recognizing how knowledge and misunderstanding can be transmitted across generations and shape attitudes, values, and behaviors over time.

5. Prepare individuals to engage thoughtfully with family-related issues, strengthen public discourse, and support informed, resilient, and civically engaged communities.

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Our Impact

We measure our success by how effectively we advance public understanding of marriage and family across multiple sectors, creating new opportunities and resources for students, educators, government officials, professionals, and lifelong learners to develop, critically reflect on, and act upon a deeper understanding of the family as the most fundamental unit of society.

A Letter from the Board

The family is a powerful force in the human experience. From the beginning of history to our contemporary moment, families continue to shape the full range of human identity. Whether in dysfunction and disarray or in profound acts of love, selflessness, courage, and compassion, families influence individuals and society in countless ways.

In spite of this reality, few understand the immense value, capacity, power, and influence of families in the secular arenas of life. There is an urgent need to understand the ways family and family influences are interwoven into all parts of the social, cultural, spiritual, and political fabric of our world.

In short? There is a growing lack of literacy about the family.

Whether we realize it or not, family illiteracy affects all our lives in very real ways. When understanding of families and their immense power for good is lacking, the role of the family becomes devalued in public life. With only partial or superficial awareness of the family’s indispensable role in creating and maintaining strong, stable societies, marriage and family are increasingly devalued.

We have seen this play out in significant ways with sweeping cultural and political change flooding the earth. We have also seen it closer to home with our families, friends, communities, and at times, in our places of worship, where the influence of entertainment, academia, and social media obscure the critically important roles that healthy marriages and families play in public life and for the next generation. This, in turn, diminishes recognition of the family’s unique role in nurturing, protecting, and valuing the next generation. The brunt of this burden is borne by those least able to bear it: children.

However, with improved family literacy, future generations can begin to view the world through a family lens. We’re confident that a shift toward family and public life initiatives will encourage a renaissance of successful marriages and families in which all human life is valued and families flourish.

We invite you to join us as we seek to advance understanding about family and public life in service of a better world.

Chairman

Chairman of the Board

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