Soulmates are Fake (feat. Brad Wilcox)

<p>In Today's "Moment of Truth," Nick and Emma sit down with Brad Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, to discuss the sorry state of marriages in the United States, the impact of healthy families on our culture and economy, and how the impact of COVID-19 might not be so bad for our marriage rate in the years to&nbsp;come.</p><br /><p>W. Bradford Wilcox is Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.virginia.edu/sociology/peopleofsociology/bwilcox.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia</em></a>, Visiting Scholar at the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.aei.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">American Enterprise Institute</a>, and a Senior Fellow at the&nbsp;<a href="http://family-studies.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Institute for Family Studies</a>.</p><br /><p>Professor Wilcox’s research has focused on marriage, fatherhood, and cohabitation, especially on the ways that family structure, civil society, and culture influence the quality and stability of family life in the&nbsp;<a href="http://stateofourunions.org/2010/when-marriage-disappears.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">United States</a>&nbsp;and around the&nbsp;<a href="http://worldfamilymap.ifstudies.org/2015/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">globe</a>. Now, Dr. Wilcox is exploring the contribution that families make to the economic welfare of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/IFS-ForRicherForPoorer-Final_Web.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">individuals</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aei.org/publication/strong-families-prosperous-states/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">societies</a>. Wilcox&nbsp;has published articles on marriage, cohabitation, parenting, and fatherhood in&nbsp;The American Sociological Review, Social Forces, The Journal of Marriage and Family&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.futureofchildren.org/futureofchildren/publications/docs/marriagedivide.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Future of Children</a>. As an undergraduate, Wilcox was a Jefferson Scholar at the University of Virginia (’92) and later earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Prior to coming to the University of Virginia, he held research fellowships at Princeton University, Yale University, and the Brookings Institution.</p><br /><p>––––––</p><br /><p>Follow American Moment on Social Media:</p><p>Twitter – <a href="https://twitter.com/AmMomentOrg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/AmMomentOrg</a></p><p>Facebook – <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AmMomentOrg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/AmMomentOrg</a></p><p>Instagram – <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ammomentorg/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/ammomentorg/</a></p><p>YouTube – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4qmB5DeiFxt53ZPZiW4Tcg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4qmB5DeiFxt53ZPZiW4Tcg</a></p><br /><p>Check out AmCanon:</p><p><a href="https://www.americanmoment.org/amcanon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.americanmoment.org/amcanon/</a></p><br /><p>American Moment's "Moment of Truth" Podcast is recorded at the Conservative Partnership Center in Washington DC, produced and edited by Jared Cummings.</p><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>