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‘Me First’ to ‘Family First’: Brad Wilcox ‘Gives Voice to the Value of Marriage’, by Joan Frawley Desmond – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

‘Me First’ to ‘Family First’: Brad Wilcox ‘Gives Voice to the Value of Marriage’, by Joan Frawley Desmond

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By Joan Frawley Desmond, EWTN News,

Joan Frawley Desmond is a Register senior editor. She is an award-winning journalist widely published in Catholic, ecumenical and secular media. A graduate of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies of Marriage and Family, she lives with her family in California.

Sociologist and father of nine expounds on why marriage and family are the way to personal fulfillment.

Joan Frawley DesmondYoung Americans are choosing to marry and have children at much lower rates than their parents and grandparents. “In 1980, just 6% of 40-year-olds had never been married,” according to the Pew Research Center, but by 2021, 25% of 40-year-olds had not married.

And while college graduates are more likely to find a spouse than their peers from poor or working class families, young adults from all backgrounds now face a blur of confusing often counterproductive advice from experts, who have lately encouraged experimentation with polyamory. …

W. Bradford Wilcox, by contrast urges the young to drop a “me first” approach to love and marriage in favor of a “family first” path to the altar. In his latest book, Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization (HarperCollins), the University of Virginia sociologist ….

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