Doctor Mike

You know, we're finding that fewer and fewer people are getting married and having children.

And those are wonderful things.

I mean, there's all kinds of cultural nonsense out there that if you get happier, you'll be subjugated and tied down and all that.

Or if you have kids, you'll be more miserable.

That's all nonsense.

That's all nonsense.

They're getting that from a lot of the popular culture.

They're getting that from sort of wishful thinking.

The whole idea that freedom is without restriction, that a libertine lifestyle is always and everywhere better.

And a lot of that comes from kind of the propaganda from the sexual revolution, that getting tied down in traditional relationships is somehow old school and restrictive and will make your life a lot worse.

No, it won't.

No, I got the data.

Look, if you're in an unhappy marriage, but you know, fair enough, but you know, no one's advocating for abusive IPV relationships.

Of course not.

But a good marriage is literally the number one source of happiness in people's lives.

And when we have cultural barriers, but even political and policy barriers that make it harder, you know, when you make it, so you lose your welfare benefits, if you have a partner in the home,

That's insanity.

That's craziness.

That's a bad policy is what it comes down to.

Friendship, you know, when we're fragmenting friendship with the propagation of the way that we're spreading the use of social media to people under 13 years old, that's a big problem for happiness because it's a barrier to friendship, in-person friendship.