For the last five years, Amber and David Lapp have been hard at work interviewing working-class Millennials in a small town in southern Ohio. For the Lapps, who are both research fellows at the conservative Institute for Family Studies, the goal was to learn about how these Millennials form relationships and families, as well as how those family arrangements work out.
Though the project was not overtly political in its nature, in the wake of the 2016 election, the Lapps wondered what some of their research subjects might have to say about labor and family policy in the age of Donald Trump. So they convened a focus group with 10 participants — all Millennials, all parents, all high school-educated (without college degrees).
“We wanted to be able to go a little bit more in depth about how a select group of parents are thinking about these issues so that their voices can be heard and their thoughts can be considered as the new administration and Congress convenes,” David Lapp says.
[For more of this story, written by Dywer Gunn, go to https://psmag.com/what-do-mill...a8857a0a6#.z6bdib8mr]
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