Politico spotlights Brad Wilcox's "Get Married"

(Charlottesville, VA.)—For Immediate Release

Contact: Chris Bullivant 

Politico spotlights Brad Wilcox's Get Married and his argument that marriage matters more than ever—in the run up to its publication this Valentine's Day

In a new Politico roundtable "Why is the Pundit Class Suddenly So Married Obsessed," Brad Wilcox argued that marriage plays a crucial role in advancing the welfare of men, women, and especially children in America today, as he promotes his forthcoming book, Get Married—out February 13, 2024, available for pre-order.

"Marriage, at least in the U.S.," writes Joana Weiss in Politico, "isn’t what it used to be. Over the past 50 years, marriage rates nationwide declined by 60 percent. Forty percent of U.S. children are now born to unmarried mothers, twice as many as in 1980. One widely covered poll last year found that 2 out of 5 GenZ-ers and millennials consider marriage an outdated concept."

She continued, "The decline of marriage, after all, joins other social changes such as falling birth rates and a 'loneliness epidemic' — the new crusade of Surgeon General Vivek Murthy — that arguably could be solved by more marriage. So conservatives, broadly, have preached a return to tradition: In the New York Times, David Brooks advised younger readers 'to obsess less about your career and to think a lot more about marriage.'"

Wilcox agreed, noting: 

"There’s just no question that in the United States, at least, there is no comparison to marriage in delivering stability for kids and giving them maximal access to their parents’ attention and affections, discipline and money."

For example, "We have a study in Minnesota looking at twin men and finding that the twins who got married earn 26 percent more. So I want to suggest that there actually is some institutional magic about marriage, and that when people inhabit this institution, they tend to have more stable lives."

ENDS.

Notes.

1. Get Married is available for pre-order now, and released on February 13, 2024.
2. If you would like to receive a galley of Getting Married for the purposes of reviewing the book, please be in touch with Chris Bullivant.
3. Brad Wilcox is Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies in Charlottesville, VA.