Naomi Schaefer Riley wanted to be a journalist so she could spend her days “asking people questions and getting to talk to them about the most interesting, intimate parts of their belief systems and their families.”
A former columnist for the New York Post and a former Wall Street Journal editor and writer, Schaefer Riley is now the senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute focusing on issues regarding child welfare. She is also a Deseret News columnist.
In this Deseret News “yellow couch” video, titled, “The challenges facing today’s youth,” Schaefer Riley talks about child welfare, social media, higher education and religion in the United States.
”I think there is nothing like the nuclear family and bringing back marriage and bringing up children in stable nuclear families,” she said. “That is going to be able to fix so many of our problems. But it’s really hard for me to imagine how that horse gets back in the barn at this point.”
She also said that she hopes the nation can come to understand that “politics is not the most important thing in the world” and that “there are so many other things that we agree on, and that we should be able to talk about.
”I hope that … somehow people get that message after the last few years.”