Brad Wilcox
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And then I think the final thing is just sort of, there's a way in which there's a lot of often ambiguity and lack of authentic commitment in cohabitation that can kind of cast a gray cloud over the relationship.
As folks move into marriage or even kind of allow a lot of people nowadays to spend even years in a cohabiting relationship that they thought was headed to marriage, but the other party was not interested in marriage.
And so it can kind of lead them to lose out on opportunities to marry and have kids.
And these are some of the reasons why cohabitation actually isn't a great strategy.
And for folks who are skeptical at this point, you can just go into like Claude, for instance, and say Claude.
Summarize the research on cohabitation and divorce.
Claude, summarize the research on cohabitation and marital quality.
Again, this is not a Bible thing.
It's not a Christian thing.
It's not a Catholic thing.
This is just a social science thing that this is not the best way to get your marriage started off on the right footing.
So I think, you know, one of the striking things that I see at UVA is that a lot of my students are kind of telling me that their parents' primary expectations for them revolve around education and work.
Young adults who are coming from Christian homes are kind of getting the message from mom and dad that what really matters for, you know, for you and from our perspective, right, is you want to be killing it at college and then you want to be killing it in your career in the next, you know, decade or so.
And we see this also in Pew data telling us that parents are prioritizing for their kids their future work much more than their future, you know, marriage and family prospects.
So I think sadly, sadly, Alex, we're going to see a lot of parents when they hit their sixties and seventies or even their eighties.
wondering where the grandkids are because they never communicated to their children that the most important things in life are family, friendship, and for many of us, faith, right?
And so if you don't kind of clearly communicate to your kids that what matters most is marriage and family and friendship and faith and community,
and you instead tell them that what really matters is how well they're doing in school and what kind of career they're going to have down the road, they're going to listen to you.
So in terms of formation, I think, yeah, taking time with your kids to form them in the faith is one important thing that parents need to do.
But also kind of helping them understand and appreciate that love and family and marriage are, for most of us, the most important things.
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