Dr. Brad Wilcox

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Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex · Why Finding Love Feels Harder Than Ever, #614 · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

So when kind of look at the United States, for instance, what we see is that in states across America that have stronger marriage cultures, where more folks are married, where more kids are being raised in married parent families, there is less child poverty, there is more happiness, there is less incarceration.

Kids are doing better in school.

So just a whole bunch of ways in which when the family is flourishing, um, communities are more likely to be flourishing, and of course, also kids and adults are more likely to be flourishing.

And I'll just say kind of two quick different comments um about kids first and then adults second.

So when it comes to kids.

Action a lot of talk lately about how.

Boys especially suffer when families break down.

And it is true that when the family breaks down in my book, for instance, this is kind of the most striking stat for me, what I was seeing is that young men who were being raised in a home without their intact, you know, married parent family.

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or in jail than to graduate from a college, you know, like Malone.

And by contrast, young men who are being raised by their own married parents are about four times more likely to graduate from college than they were to spend any time in jail or in prison.

So it kind of gives you a sense of sort of how marriage matters for boys.

But we see in the literature more broadly for kids that when boys are distressed, when young men are distressed, they are more likely to externalize, as you know in the psychological literature, sort of act out in some kind of way, you know, get in trouble.

At school, get incarcerated, et cetera.

But when girls are stressed or when young women are stressed, they're more likely to internalize, to be depressed or anxious, for instance.

And so what we see in in my in my book is that that's expressed with girls, for instance, in in our research being much more likely to be depressed when they're in some kind of you know unstable, non-intact family.

Unstable or in or non-intact families affect both boys and girls, young men and young women, but in somewhat oftentimes different ways.

Um so again, boys tend to externalize, girls tend to internalize in the face of some kind of family trauma of one sort or another.

Now for adults, um, you know, basically we see is that adults who are marrying today are

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