A World Magazine Book of the Year 2024: "Get Married"
December 12, 2024
Get Married (HarperCollins 2024) has been named World Magazine, Book of the Year, 2024 in their General Nonfiction category. The book, written by Institute for Family Studies Future of Freedom Fellow, Brad Wilcox, explores why marriage matters for our civilization more than ever.
Eighty-one percent of the Silent Generation were married between the ages of 23 and 38, according to Statista. That number dropped to 53% for Generation X. In 2020, the rate was only 44% for millennials.
That those numbers represent a social revolution is obvious. But what University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox demonstrates in Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization (Broadside Books, 320 pp.) is that they also have led to a marked decline in well-being for adults, children, and society itself.
Get Married goes strongly against the grain of a culture that tells young people to remain single as long as possible, but Wilcox backs up his arguments with persuasive data. The author’s strong defense of the foundational institution of civilization—at a time when that institution is eroding—makes Get Married WORLD’s 2024 Book of the Year in the general nonfiction category.
