The Institute for American Values is a New York City think tank focusing on family and social issues.
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The Institute’s mission is “to study and strengthen civil society.” Within the focus on civil society, the institute’s current priorities are marriage, thrift, and public conversation.
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Its president is David Blankenhorn. It has influenced both liberal and conservative politicians. It has been critical of divorce and out-of-wedlock childbirth. It supports fathers' rights. It helped shape the family ideology of the Clinton administration. The organization, as a whole, seems to take a moderate position on gay rights issues, although Blankenhorn signed a petition in 2014 called "Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Dissent". It interpreted the September 11 attacks as an attack on American values. It has been supported by Philip Anschutz.