What Next - Can Marriage Fix America?
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Why is everyone—on the left and the right—suddenly touting the benefits of a married two-parent family? And what is it about this institution that appeals to a certain class of politicians and pundits as means to address American poverty, even as it loses popularity?
We consider the public meltdown over lower marriage rates and the renewed interest in ending no-fault divorce.
Guest: Rebecca Traister, author of All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation and writer-at-large for New York magazine.
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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Madeline Ducharme, Anna Phillips, Paige Osburn, and Rob Gunther.
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