9.10.2019

Can Your Marriage Help Solve Marriage Decline in America?

Why is marriage in decline in our culture?  Commentator Ben Shapiro discussed this issue in a recent podcast where he focused on a new study.  The Cornell University study offered up its explanation for the decline – there just are not as many economically-attractive men for unmarried women as there used to be.  That could be the case, as additional research shows that women still consider a man's financial stability to be one of the most important factors in their determination of his marriageability. 

Ben Shapiro, however, made the claim that the marriage decline is due to a general decline in religion across economic demographics – which certainly may be true also, as Americans survey faith in decline as well. 

In our recent article Solving Millennial Marriage Evolution, which you can read at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3293263, Kathleen Akers and I think, however, that he may have missed the wider point that we made in that piece - that people on the lower end of the wage and income gap are incentivized not to marry due to government benefits. 

Instead, we argue that marriage can enhance personal responsibility which causes partners to rise to the challenge that a commitment to marriage requires – and they benefit from that choice – and so do their children.  Getting married makes a big difference.

Read Solving Millennial Marriage Evolution today to understand what is really happening with marriage, and how you can be a part of reversing the marriage decline toward family restoration.



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