Why You're Still Single & How To Get Married | Brad Wilcox
Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Turning Point USA
4.8 • 15.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Why are so many incredible women still single — and why do men feel like dating is impossible?
Brad Wilcox, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UVA and author of Get Married, joins us to tackle one of the most urgent crises of our time — crashing birth rates, exploding loneliness, and entire generations opting out of love and family. He breaks down why even Christians are struggling, and gives us the roadmap for what to do if you actually want to get, and stay, married.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you agree with Charlie Kirk when he said that everyone needed to be married by 30 at the latest? |
| 0:05.0 | Or do you think he was a little too harsh? |
| 0:06.0 | He said that if women waited until 30 to have kids, they had only a 50% chance of having a child. |
| 0:12.0 | And I thought, Charlie Kirk doesn't know what he's talking about. |
| 0:15.0 | Charlie Kirk was right on the money. |
| 0:16.0 | What we're seeing today in America is that no group of Americans are reporting their lives |
| 0:20.0 | are more meaningful |
| 0:21.0 | and happier than married fathers and married mothers. |
| 0:25.6 | What is the divorce rate currently in America? Is it as scary as we've been told? |
| 0:29.0 | The divorce rate in America, Alex, has gone down since 1981, pretty consistently, when about |
| 0:33.7 | one and two marriages end in divorce, but we're now down to probably around 40% of first marriages and a divorce. And that's not great, believe me, it's not great, but it's important just to understand and appreciate that most marriages will go the distance. too. Why are so many incredible women still single? |
| 1:13.9 | Birth rates are crashing. |
| 1:15.5 | Loneliness is exploding. |
| 1:17.2 | Millions of young adults are delaying commitment. |
| 1:20.0 | Opting out of dating entirely or losing hope that love, marriage, and family are even |
| 1:24.1 | attainable anymore. |
| 1:25.4 | And what's fascinating is that this isn't just happening |
| 1:27.6 | among secular culture. Christians are really struggling too. You have beautiful, successful, |
| 1:32.7 | emotionally intelligent women saying that there are no good men left, men saying that dating |
| 1:37.1 | feels impossible, entire generations paralyzed by perfectionism, fear, unrealistic standards, |
| 1:43.2 | political division, financial anxiety, |
| 1:45.9 | social media comparison, and a culture that tells people to endlessly optimize themselves |
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