Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. So, You're going to do. We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Jershensky

Culture Editor here at the Federalist. As always you can email the show at radio at the Federalist

dot com follow us on X at fDR LST and make sure to subscribe wherever you download your

podcasts and of course to the premium version of our website as well. So excited to be joined once again today by

Brad Wilcox who is out with a new book on February 13th called Get Married

why Americans must defy the elites, forge strong families, and save civilization.

Brad, thank you so much for coming back on the show and congratulations on the book.

So good to be with you again, Emily, today.

But I don't know if I've ever asked you this question, but it occurs to me.

I'm curious how your career ended up going in the direction of family studies of studying marriage so closely to the point where now you've

devoted an entire book's length to this topic and the trends in not just the last you know couple of years but you know much longer time

period than that well how did your career end up in going in this direction Brad?

Yeah it's it's a good question So I was raised by a single mom in the 70s and 80s. I talk about that kind of in the book, you know, about kind of most of my friends growing up were from divorced homes. Either their parents got divorced before we met or after we met.

Although my actually my dad died when I was three, so my kind of route to single parent

and was a bit different.

And then in college at the University of Virginia,

I was here as an undergraduate as well,

kind of had this sense that,

as this kind of make sense of, you know,

growing up without a dad,

that marriage is an institution that connected man on average, you know, to their kids.

And I had some professors who were kind of unusual and challenging and they helped me kind of, you

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