Sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox is the National Marriage Project director at the University of Virginia, and he just released a book entitled “Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization”

“Get Married” cites Census Bureau data from 2020 showing that married mothers ages 18-55 had a median annual family income of $108,000, compared with $41,000 for single peers without children. Mothers in their 50s had accumulated $322,000 in median assets, compared with $100,000 for childless single women.

“There’s a huge financial advantage to marriage that has only grown since 1970,” Mr. Wilcox said. “Some living expenses have increased, creating a benefit to two people earning together, regardless of whether they have children.”

In a New York Times article, University of San Francisco law professor Lara Bazelon said divorce is “liberating, pointing the way toward a different life that leaves everyone better off, including the children.”

Mr. Wilcox said Ms. Bazelon was gaslighting. His book cites federal education statistics and national surveys showing that the children of divorced parents are “almost twice as likely to be suspended or expelled from school,” 75% more likely to use drugs and “about half as likely” to finish college.

His book notes that the rates of married adults with children are highest among the wealthiest and most educated residents of “gentrified urban neighborhoods and gilded suburbs,” regardless of their politics and public support for a single lifestyle.

Mike Sharman of Share HealthCare talks about these statistics, pointing out that marriage was God's good plan all the way back in the book of Genesis, and it is still a good plan today.

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