Brad Wilcox
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So I think one of the challenges sort of facing us, you know, is that there are plenty of voices in the culture.
Many of them have been kind of on the left for a long time in the mainstream media, kind of telling women to kind of steer clear of marriage and motherhood.
They're sort of seeing them as transitions of loss.
So for instance, Amy Shearn wrote in the New York Times that married motherhood in America is a game that no one wins.
So again, from the left, we've been hearing about kind of how marriage is a bad deal for women.
But we're now getting new voices on the right, like Andrew Tate and Pearl Davis, who are telling us that marriage is a bad deal for men.
in large part because they think divorce, to your question, is just endemic in America today.
And so from their perspective, what reasonable guy would invest in marriage, given that from their perspective, he's likely to land in divorce court,
He's likely to lose primary custody of kids.
He's likely to lose a substantial share of his income or his assets to an ex-wife.
And so they instead encourage guys to focus on kind of getting strong on making money and using money
but not investing in the opposite sex, sort of avoiding love and marriage because it's a bad deal.
But what they don't understand and appreciate is the divorce rate in America, Alex, has gone down since 1981 pretty consistently.
And so what that means is that there was, yes, this terrible divorce revolution in the 70s and 80s when about one in two marriages ended in divorce.
But we're now down to probably around 40% of first marriages ending 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 today.
And there are things you can do to dramatically reduce your risk of divorce as well.
In my book, In Getting Married, I talk about a number of things that we see are linked to less divorce.
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