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Repeal family policies and replace them with support for married nuclear families

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 14, p. 451. Written by Roger Severino.

Repeal family policies and replace them with support for married nuclear families

The document says “should”Who acts: HHSHow: internal managementp. 451 in the PDF
What the document says

“These policies should be repealed and replaced by policies that support the formation of stable, married, nuclear families.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 451

The chapter says current policies focus on LGBTQ+ equity, subsidizing single motherhood, disincentivizing work and penalizing marriage. It asks that the department prioritize married father engagement in its messaging, health and welfare policies, and says that in reproductive technology policy the desires of adults should never be placed over the right of children to be raised by the biological parents who conceive them.

What the document actually says

“These policies should be repealed and replaced by policies that support the formation of stable, married, nuclear families.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 451
That sentence, in plain words

These rules should be repealed. New ones should back married families instead.

What this is about

The book says current rules help single parents. It says they discourage marriage. It wants rules that support married couples raising children.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. EO 14216 is the nearest document on family formation: it declares a policy of reliable access to in vitro fertilization and asks the Domestic Policy Council for recommendations to cut its out of pocket and health plan costs. It repeals none of the policies the passage names, says nothing about marriage or father engagement, and takes its own direction on reproductive technology rather than applying the chapter's principle about children being raised by the parents who conceive them. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 451.
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    “Repeal family policies and replace them with support for married nuclear families,” Project 2025, chapter 14, p. 451. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch14-family-policy-toward-married-nuclear-families/ (retrieved October 8, 2026).

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