The Deseret News and Institute for Family Studies will convene Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) alongside a panel of distinguished scholars and experts to explore how to best strengthen the American family.

Moderating the conversation is Brad Wilcox, a sociologist at the University of Virginia and a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. Alongside Sen. Mitt Romney, Wilcox will be joined in the conversation by Jenet Jacob Erickson, a Deseret News contributing writer and a fellow at The Wheatley Institution at BYU and Margarita Mooney Suarez, a professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary.