Brad Wilcox
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And then what's called a nomos in the research in sociology.
And a nomos is kind of this idea there's a sacred canopy over you or over your marriage or over your family and the sense that God is with you and for you.
And so when the slings and arrows of misfortune, to paraphrase Shakespeare, come your way, your mom dies early.
You lose your job.
Your daughter's in the psychiatric ward, local hospital, on a weekly basis.
Your wife's depressed.
When these things hit you, if you're a person of faith and you're plugged into a faith community, you're much more likely to be flourishing and to avoid falling in that negative spiral that can lead to divorce.
So we see on the divorce front that couples who are regularly attending church
are between 30% and 50% less likely to get divorced.
So these are the kinds of things you can do to bring that divorce risk even further down for a strong and stable marriage today.
I wrote this piece called Get Married Young for Compact Magazine, and I was actually inspired by some of the comments that Charlie Kirk had made.
And one of the most provocative points that he had made in kind of making the case for younger marriage was he said that if women waited until 30 to have kids, they had only a 50% chance of having a child.
And I thought, Charlie Kirk doesn't know what he's talking about.
That seems like an incredibly large number.
And so I had a colleague of mine at the Institute for Family Studies, Grant Bailey, kind of look at the numbers and look at a large data set.
And he found that that was in fact, Charlie Kirk was right on the money.
The point is, is that if you're waiting longer to get married, you're waiting longer to start a family, then your odds of doing that are going to fall.
And they do fall pretty precipitously, you know, as you push past 30 for women.
Now, it's important to note that if you're getting married in your early 30s, your odds of having kids are still reasonably good.
But the bigger point here is that sort of just given the fact that lots of people are experiencing more difficulty when it comes to dating today,
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