“Get Married” Provides an Urgent Imperative Based on Data and Experience, by John M. Grondelsk

There are two unusual things about this book: It’s coming out for Valentine’s Day. And the title is a simple, strong imperative.

The release of Get Married was deliberately planned to coincide with the end of National Marriage Week, an annual focus on the importance of marriage that ends on Valentine’s Day, February 14. And the book’s title commands us to do something for which that earlier generations did not seem to need an order.

Brad Wilcox is a recognized authority on the state of American marriage. Director of the National Marriage Project and professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, he’s been charting what’s going on with marriage in the United States for decades. The annual “State of Our Unions” report is compelling (if often disturbing) reading about what Americans are thinking about and doing in terms of marriage. ….

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