New York Encounter panel: Marriage matters ‘more than ever’ amid falling birth rates
February 16, 2025
Forecasts that 1 in 3 young adults in the U.S. today will never marry signify a closing of the “American heart,” a leading marriage researcher said Saturday.
“Love and marriage have fallen on harder times of late,” observed Brad Wilcox, a sociologist who directs the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, during a Feb. 15 panel discussion titled “Why Have Children?” at New York Encounter, an annual conference organized by members of the Catholic movement Communion and Liberation.
