"[OPEN] Family policy is a relatively young field, conceived in the 1970s. What have been some of the controversies and defining questions of each decade? How were each of these defining questions resolved? {}" "[OPEN] How do individualistic societies such as the United States justify social programs? {}" "[OPEN] If your goal is to advance family policy, would you be more likely to reach this goal if you pointed out how well families are doing or the risks that families face? {}" "[OPEN] To move family policies forward, are individual or structural explanations likely to be more effective? Are political incumbents more likely to use individual or structural explanations? Which explanations are political challengers likely to use? {}"