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February 14, 2024
Why You Should Get Married
…and Don’t Have Kids Are Getting Richer.” Or The Atlantic in 2019, offering “The Case Against Marriage.” Or, in 2021, The New York Times with “Divorce Can Be an Act of Radical Self-Love.” In the Times piece,…
February 13, 2024
The Awfulness of Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage
…almost all unmarried—“Do you personally plan to finish your education, work full-time, marry, and then have children?,” 97 percent said yes. And when I asked, “If you came home at…
September 18, 2023
No Culture Wars, Please, We’re Academics
…on children and how they develop as adults. “Children in two-parent homes tend to live in homes with a higher level of income and have more time with their parents…
September 14, 2023
The Privilege Hiding in Plain Sight
…my only wish is that she had spent more time in two areas: (1) advocating that marriage and family structure become a standard data category through which child outcomes are…
August 2, 2023
The Best Predictor of Happiness in America? Marriage
…is stable over time. It is about the same whether the unmarried state is due to divorce, separation, death of spouse or never having married,” Peltzman says. What’s more, he…
June 11, 2023
Now Political Polarization Comes for Marriage Prospects
…important over time, with fewer Americans willing to date or marry across the aisle. Dating apps and websites report a growing share of users setting political criteria for matches. The Survey…
May 26, 2023
The Power of the Success Sequence
…The formula involves three steps: get at least a high school education, work full time, and marry before having children. Among Millennials who followed this sequence, 97% are not poor…
May 24, 2023
Don’t Be So Shocked That People Still Want Marriage and Children
Four writers at Curbed, the millennial-run, New York-centric real estate site, undertook an ambitious project. To put a price tag on living in New York, they asked young people to describe their…
February 2, 2023
Prioritizing Money Over Marriage, Today’s Parents Are Making a Big Mistake
…having kids as beneficial life goals when you haven’t witnessed many good marriages yourself. Men and women are spending less time in marriage over the course of their life than…
May 26, 2022
Realizing the Dream: What Does the Success Sequence Have to Do with the Economic Welfare of Black and Hispanic Young Adults?
…effectively communicate the value of marriage to the rising generation. —Josh Barker Event Description The success sequence—earning at least a high school degree, working full-time, and marrying before childbearing—is a…