Brad Wilcox
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That in the general adult female population, if you're kind of pushing past 30 without like a clear path to marriage and motherhood, it's going to be more and more challenging.
And so Kirk was right to basically warn, you know, folks that waiting too long can put you at risk of not having the family you would like to have.
And so it's for that reason in part.
that I would encourage young adults to take their opportunities in college, in the workplace, in their local churches, in the local run club, you know, in their early twenties to look around and mix and mingle and see if they find someone who would be a good candidate for marriage.
Exactly.
I think it's important just to sort of underline that, you know, one of the more sobering kind of dimensions of the work that I'm doing is I am talking to a lot of women in their mid-30s, both for my book, Get Married, but also for my more recent work.
And I talked to Elizabeth, I mentioned that before, who's in her mid-30s now in Texas, and she would like to be married with kids, but she's finding it really difficult to find a guy who'd be, you know, worth or interested in dating.
So that's, and as I said, she was saying to me, like, if she had kind of thought about this more carefully in college, where there are lots of guys who are kind of like her.
And as she said, by her own words, sort of more nerdy, she thinks she could have found someone.
And I think I also spoke to a woman named Taylor who lives, you know, not too far from here.
And she was encouraged in her 20s to sort of focus on her career as a designer, as a graphic designer, and then also to kind of, you know, have fun, travel, not really, you know...
not really worried about getting married.
And now she's in her mid thirties and she's like, oh my gosh, I wish I had kind of taken a different pathway in my twenties.
You know, I wish I had kind of looked more carefully for a potential spouse.
I think just it's about kind of encouraging people, both male and female to just understand that again, we're headed to a world where probably one in three young adults will never marry.
and one in four will never have kids.
These are record numbers, like record levels of permanent bachelors and permanent bachelorettes, of childless men and childless women.
And in this newer world that we're kind of living in where dating does seem to be more difficult, it just doesn't make sense to say that just because you're 20 or 21 or 22 or 23 or 24, 25,
that you shouldn't be kind of looking around in your college or in your trade school, in your workplace, your church, your run club, for someone who'd be, again, a great friend, a great lover, and a great spouse.
So this comes from work done by my colleague Lyman Stone, who's a demographer at the Institute for Family Studies.
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