June 12, 2024
Get Married Initiative
Get Married Initiative provides resources, education, and support to couples.
“Brad Wilcox's Get Married offers a simple formula to improve happiness health, and prosperity”
Researcher
Brad Wilcox
Future of Freedom Fellow
About Initiative
The Get Married Initiative is a research program that reviews the data on marriage, family formation, and life outcomes. The research to date has profiled the benefits of stably-married family to individuals, couples, their children, and wider American society.
Through this initiative, we aim to provide resources for a rising generation of Americans considering how to get married and establish a stable family life. The Get Married Initiative will produce a series of research papers and online tools available here.
Articles On Get Married
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News On Get Married
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Why you should get married: Brad Wilcox
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Interview: Busting the myths of marriage
“It's rare that someone offers a simple formula to improve happiness, health, and prosperity, but Brad Wilcox masterfully does just that in Get Married. ”
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Get Married, Stay Married: A Recipe for Health, Wealth and Happiness
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Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization
Drawing on the latest in social science as well as ancient wisdom, University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox is dedicated to understanding and strengthening our most important institutions: marriage and family.
According to new research by the University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox, our kids and communities—not to mention our civilization as when the state of our unions is strong.
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