Married or Single?

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Marriage has long been considered a goal to aspire to and a conventional path to happiness. But over the last few decades, the traditional view of marriage as the cornerstone of adult life has been questioned. Changes in economic conditions, gender roles, and cultural values have fueled a reevaluation of whether marriage is still desirable or necessary for personal fulfillment and social stability. Those who believe it’s better to get married argue that married individuals report better physical and mental well-being, compared to single adults. They also experience economic and social benefits. Those who believe it’s better to be single say singledom helps promote independence, allows individuals to make decisions freely, makes it likely to create broader social networks and communities, and feel more fulfilled than they would if they felt pressured to be partnered. Whether you are in a relationship or not, we debate the following prompt: Married or Single? Arguing Married: Jonathan Rothwell, Principal Economist at Gallup Arguing Single: Bella DePaulo, Social Scientist and Author of "Singled Out" and "Single at Heart" Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan moderates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.0	I'm John Don Van.
0:39.0	The topic for this episode's debate, I can sum up in three words
0:43.6	married or single that is it
0:47.1	not to say that there might not be some other
0:49.2	third or fourth option for a living arrangement but many of us
0:52.2	I think it's fair to say are either
0:53.8	one or the other either married or single by choice in many cases although not
0:57.7	always but what we're hoping to get at is what's the better way to live are
1:02.1	those who are married by which we're going to be
1:04.8	saying conventionally married legal marriage with a license etc and vows are they
1:08.9	leading better lives measured a million different ways than those who go through life being single.
1:15.0	And how would we actually measure that? How would we even figure out a thing like that?
1:19.0	We do know that there are people who are totally fulfilled by having a betrothed partner and they would not have it any other way,
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