Hey everyone. Welcome to From the Kitchen Table.

I'm Sean Duffy along with my co-host for the podcast and my wife, Rachel Campos Duffy.

It's great to be back, Sean.

This week we celebrated our anniversary.

We did.

24 years.

24 years and nine kids, which is kind of plays into the topic we have because there's a

new study out of the University of Ohio and it examined couples and saw that if the couple, the spouses, the more

siblings they had in their childhood, the less likely they are to divorce.

So kids, big families, might be the solution to the divorce rate, which in the United

States right now is at 45% of all marriages

end in divorce. Yeah, and when we read the study, it makes a lot of sense, right? That if you're

raised in a home with more kids, more siblings, there are skills that you learn as a child. You

learn how to fight, how to argue, how to forgive, how to debate.

And when you go through this complicated, you know, life of childhood, it doesn't end, right?

You're part of a family.

And you can't get away.

You can't leave.

You can't, you know, ask to be a, you know, to put up for adoption. You can't divorce your siblings. You can't divorce them. You have to learn to work it out. And the skill sets that you, that you, that you, that you garner in that early childhood with other siblings is really effective in helping you navigate your own marriage when you get to that place in your life.

You know, it really plays out, I think, in our marriage, and I've seen it through the years.

So for those who don't know, Sean is the 10th of 11 kids.

So I'm one of four, and I thought we were kind of a big family growing up, but we weren't.

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