Category: Marriage
Divorce is Devastating. It Should Be Difficult to Break the Knot
Since last week’s election, several news outlets have been featuring stories surrounding liberal concerns that new conservative majorities will move to overturn “no-fault” divorce laws...
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Young Person Explains Why Young People Aren’t Getting Married
Fair warning: If you are looking for an examination of marriage’s benefits or why it’s declining, this piece is not for you. Please read one...
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Christians Should Prioritize Marriage
In a familiar scene from the musical, Fiddler on the Roof, Tzeitel, the eldest of five daughters, reminds her sisters of the reality of marital economics. In imitation...
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Reclaiming the Truth About Marriage
The good scholars with Institute for Family Studies (IFS) have given us another great article entitled “Reclaiming the Truth About Marriage.” The author, a young...
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Mapping US Unmarried Cohabitation Rates
This is the fourth in a series of four articles examining four critical family formation trends: marriage, children living with married parents, divorce, and cohabitation....
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Mapping US Divorce Rates
This is the third in a series of four articles examining critical family formation trends: marriage, children living with married parents, divorce, and cohabitation. This...
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Mapping Declining US Marriage Rates
This is the first in a series of four articles examining four critical family formation trends: marriage, children living with married parents, divorce, and cohabitation....
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Don’t Buy the Lie it Costs a Lot to Get Married
Would you pay to attend a wedding? The New York Times asked this curious question last week in an article detailing something of a trend...
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Are Colleges a Hidden Marriage Market?
Marriage is still very high on most people’s life wish-lists. And nearly everyone who marries desires their marriage to last a lifetime. Why bother with...
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How Marriage and Fatherhood Regulate Men’s Sexual Energy
Scholar George Gilder opens his classic and important work Men and Marriage with this fundamental truth about humanity: “The crucial process of civilization is the...
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How Family Growth Trends are Moving in Wrong Directions
The U.S. Census Bureau puts out annual authoritative reports on family growth trends and America’s living arrangements. We pay very close attention to these at...
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Seinfeld’s Cosmo Kramer Finally Admits: ‘I’m all for Marriage’
For a television sitcom that’s been in reruns for the last quarter plus century, Seinfeld has been in the news a lot lately. First, Jerry...
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What is the Best Age to Marry? New Research Offers Surprising Findings
It is wisely assumed that everyone entering marriage wants their marriage to last for life. That, after all, is what marriage is about, “till death...
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Important New Research on How Married Parents Improve Child Well-Being
A new report issued by the Institute for Family Studies revisits the critical question of how much the marital status of mothers and fathers matters...
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Virgin Island — The Newest Dating Show With A Seedy Message
What does it say about our collective perceptions of dating and marriage that being a virgin is interesting enough to anchor an entire TV show?...
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The Telling History of Cartier’s 100-Year-Old Trinity Ring
He was born Louis-Francois Cartier, the son of 19th-century French peasants, and was a committed jeweler’s apprentice who managed to eventually scrape together enough money...
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Instead of Legalizing Adultery, Legislators Should Be Championing Fidelity
Adultery is expected to be legalized in the coming weeks in New York, a development that leaves most people surprised it’s even a crime in...
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Brad Wilcox Exhorts Young People to ‘Get Married’
Brad Wilcox is Professor of Sociology and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. He’s also a fellow at the Institute...
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49ers Quarterback Brock Purdy Marries College Sweetheart: ‘I Love Your Heart for Jesus’
It’s only March, and San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy has already had quite the remarkable year. Purdy led the Niners at Super Bowl LVIII...
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Myths Persist: Pop Culture Wrongly Steers Women Away From Marriage
Decades of sociological research show women benefit from marriage. As Maggie Gallagher, co-author of The Case for Marriage, writes for City Journal: In virtually every...
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Declines in Marriage Rates Mean Declines in Citizen Civic Engagement
The Institute for Family Studies (IFS) reports steady and dramatic declines in marriage rates in America are related to something many of us would never...
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Texas Couple, 91 and 92, Model Marital Bond in Dramatic Wildfire Photo
Record wildfires in the Texas Panhandle have scorched more than one million acres, destroying upwards of 500 structures. Speaking in Borger, Texas, Governor Greg Abbott...
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Couples That Pray Together Stay Together
My dear friend and colleague Glenn Stanton, director of Global Formation Studies at Focus on the Family, has written with regard to marriage: “Faith does...
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Cohabitation Still Harmful – Even as Stigma Disappears
Pew Research Center reports that an overwhelming majority (78%) of young adults under age 30 believe it is wholly acceptable for unmarried couples to live...
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