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W. Bradford Wilcox on Marriage

Tags: cohabitation, divorce, education, elites, John Gottman, mainline churches, Mark Driscoll, marriage, marriage penalty tax, Me Generation, Middle America, Murphy Brown, no fault divorce, out-of-wedlock births, Promisekeepers, secularization

Brad Wilcox looks closely at how the institution of marriage has changed over the past several decades, with particular attention to “Middle America,” defined as middle-income Americans with high school education. Prof. Wilcox argues that increases in cohabitation, out-of-wedlock births, and divorce — which were common among the lowest socio-economic sectors of society in the 1960s and ’70s — is becoming increasingly common among “Middle America” today. We discuss some of the reasons for this trend and talk about various solutions. We close with a discussion of evangelicals men and parenting.

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