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🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:02.8 | My guest today is Brad Wilcox. |
| 0:04.6 | He's a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia |
| 0:07.2 | and director of the National Marriage Project. |
| 0:09.8 | Many online discussions are casting doubt on the role of marriage. |
| 0:13.5 | Is it actually a bad deal for men and women? |
| 0:16.2 | Is it dangerous for people to get into? |
| 0:18.2 | What does the evidence actually suggest |
| 0:20.8 | at the life outcomes for married people's happiness, especially in a world with rising divorces. |
| 0:26.0 | Expect to learn if marriage is a terrible idea for men in the modern era, the correlation |
| 0:30.4 | between your marital status and financial status, what happens to men and women's |
| 0:34.4 | bodies after they get married, why marriage rates are declining, whether cohabitation is good |
| 0:39.9 | enough for raising children, whether you should have a pre-nup, and much more. |
| 0:45.6 | Interesting conversation. |
| 0:46.8 | This is a hot topic at the moment. |
| 0:49.0 | Both sides of the internet seem to say that marriage is a very bad idea, Brad is sticking his neck out saying that he believes otherwise |
| 0:56.9 | very intrigued to see what the next few years of marriage rates and divorce rates have in store |
| 1:03.7 | whether it's going to be another counter-revolution or trends will continue the way |
| 1:07.4 | that they are. Anyway this Monday a brand new three hour long podcast episode with Eric Weinstein goes live. |
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| 1:19.0 | and that means you will miss the episode when it goes up. |
| 1:21.4 | So please navigate to Apple Podcasts or Spotify and |
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