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Sociologist and father of nine expounds on why marriage and family are the way to personal fulfillment.
‘One recent poll found that only 32 percent of young adults ages eighteen through forty think that marriage is essential to living a fulfilling life, compared to 64 percent who think education and 75 percent who think making a good living is crucial to fulfillment.’ (photo: Artman / Shutterstock)
Young Americans are choosing to marry and have children at much lower rates than their parents and grandparents. “In 1980, just 6% of 40-year-olds had never been married,” according to the Pew Research Center, but by 2021, 25% of 40-year-olds had not married.
And while college graduates are more likely to find a spouse than their peers from poor or working class families, young adults from all backgrounds now face a blur of confusing often counterproductive advice from experts, who have lately encouraged experimentation with polyamory.
W. Bradford Wilcox, by contrast urges the young to drop a “me first” approach to love and marriage in favor of a “family first” path to the altar. In his latest book, Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization (HarperCollins), the University of Virginia sociologist, who also serves as director of the National Marriage Project, deploys a trove of research and data to back his claim that marriage and children bring personal fulfillment. This is presented in the face of arguments to the contrary mounted by right-wing social media influencers like Andrew Tate and feminist anti-marriage ideologues.
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Young Americans are choosing to marry and have children at much lower rates than their parents and grandparents. “In 1980, just 6% of 40-year-olds had never been married,” according to the Pew Research Center, but by 2021, 25% of 40-year-olds had not married.
And while college graduates are more likely to find a spouse than their peers from poor or working class families, young adults from all backgrounds now face a blur of confusing often counterproductive advice from experts, who have lately encouraged experimentation with polyamory.
W. Bradford Wilcox, by contrast urges the young to drop a “me first” approach to love and marriage in favor of a “family first” path to the altar. In his latest book, Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization (HarperCollins), the University of Virginia sociologist, who also serves as director of the National Marriage Project, deploys a trove of research and data to back his claim that marriage and children bring personal fulfillment. This is presented in the face of arguments to the contrary mounted by right-wing social media influencers like Andrew Tate and feminist anti-marriage ideologues.
Continued below.
‘Me First’ to ‘Family First’: Brad Wilcox ‘Gives Voice to the Value of Marriage’
Sociologist and father of nine expounds on why marriage and family are the way to personal fulfillment.
