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Breakpoint

Married People Are Happier; Religious Married People Are Happiest

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Statistics back up God's good plan for humanity and for His creation. 

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Breakpoint listeners, I'm excited to announce that we're releasing an additional round of tickets to the

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2024 Coulson Center National Conference.

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If you are hoping to come to CCNC but missed your chance, now is your opportunity.

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Join us in Arlington, Texas, May 30th through June 2nd, as we gather to cultivate courageous faith.

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We'll be joined by a fantastic lineup of speakers who

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have exemplified courage in the public square, including Dr. Al Moeller, Dr

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Kristen Collier, Katie Faust, and more. You can also sign up for our pre-conference worldview intensive

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on courageous citizenship. Remaining tickets for CCNC are limited,

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so be sure to register soon if you want to join us.

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To secure your spot today, go to Colsonconference.org.

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That's Colson conference.org. What on a breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of

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unchanging truth?

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For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street. Well if sitcoms, movies, opinion pieces, and mainstream editorials were our only source of

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information, we'd be forced to conclude that marriage is a path to misery.

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It's the old ball and chain that only ties us down. that marriage, that marriage is a path to misery.

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It's the old ball and chain that only ties us down, limits our freedom, and stifles our

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sexual fun.

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Many people think of marriage, less as settling down and much more as settling, especially young people who've been told you've got

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plenty of time, live a little first, as if life ends after the wedding.

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The truth, however, is that marriage is statistically the single best predictor of long-term happiness.

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Writing in unheard, sociologist Brad Wilcox in the Institute for Family Studies David Bass

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pointed to new research from the University of Chicago that suggests that, and I quote here, Americans

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