Why are healthy marriages so vital for a flourishing society?

What factor best predicts a high quality marriage?

What are some of the most common myths people believe about marriage today and how can

Christians make a difference to encourage a merry-friendly culture. Our guest today is

sociologist Brad Wilcox, author of the new fascinating excellent book called Get Married.

I'm your host Sean McDow and this is the Think Bivocally Podcast brought to by Talib School

Theology Biiola University.

Dr. Wilcox, really appreciate you coming on.

Great to be with you here today, Sean.

Well, let's just jump right into your book.

And I want to ask you kind of a question of how you begin it with.

You begin with how both sides of the political spectrum,

you might say the left and the right devalue marriage.

Explain that to us, if you will.

Yeah, Sean, so I've been sort of studying the way

in which, you know, primarily left-leaning journalists

and academics and other culture shapers have been kind of devaluing marriage kind of denying its

importance for many many years now but what kind of has struck me in recent years is we now

voices on the right people like Andrew Tate obviously people like

Pearl Davis as well and their argument is that marriage is a bad deal for

men in Pearl Davis's term, she says,

marriage is a death sentence.

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