‘ Zero predicts happiness … like a great relationship does,’ professor says
A well-known conventional sociology professor at the University of Virginia recently argued that people should work toward establishing and maintaining strong unions.
” Married Americans are nearly twice as likely to be very happy with their lives as their individual peers in the U.S. are greatly more likely to become financially secure. S”, Professor W. Brad Wilcox said during the July 23 conference.
According to his study, Wilcox said that marriage is a more convincing aspect for pleasure than education, income, occupation, sex, or church attendance.
His findings contrast sharply with the single living celebrated on social media and popular culture, which views single men and women since happier than married people.
” There is just no question in the information that that’s false”, Wilcox said.
Wilcox made the comments during his chat titled” Minority Opinion: Save This Institution”.
The Jefferson Council, a group of University of Virginia students and other participants who describes themselves as committed to the preservation of the school’s background and the free trade of competing ideas and academic diversity, hosted the event.
In an email to The College Fix, Executive Director Sam Richardson stated that” Professor Brad Wilcox is one of the few tones in the world of higher education nowadays who clearly demonstrates the need for a profit to marriage and other community-strengthening institutions with good data and research on result.”
Everyone needs to hear his motivation to lead the lives they know are most naturally healthy and socially positive, especially for today’s students and new graduates.
Wilcox’s speak drew data and information from his new text” Get Married: Why Americans May Challenge the Leaders, Forge Strong People, and Save Civilization”, published in February. In it, he culled data from YouGov research, common social surveys on joy, and survey data on economic stability, among other sources.
Forty percent of married parents said they were “very content” compared to 22 percent of women who were one and single, he said. Furthermore, 13 percent of married women said they were” not very happy” compared to 25 percent of single women.
He said having a spouse “gives your life a sense of meaning, direction, purpose, and stability” and that they “help you navigate both the highs and the lows.”
It also makes sense financially: in a Minnesota study, male twins who were married earned about 26 percent more than their unmarried twin, he said.
During the webinar, Wilcox talked about four groups of people that are what he refers to as “masters of marriage”: conservatives, Christians, Asian Americans, and the college educated.
These groups, Wilcox said, are “masters of marriage” because the men generally have stable jobs, and the married couple are committed to each other and recognize marriage as a necessary institution. These four individuals also typically hold strong religious convictions, and they have friends who share the same values as family and marriage.
According to Wilcox,” we see that married men and married women have about ten times the assets as their unmarried peers when it comes to financial security in your fifties.”
According to Wilcox, who is married still enjoy higher levels of happiness than those who simply cohabitate during the webinar, despite The College Fix’s question about the correlation between the levels of happiness experienced by married people and those who do n’t, because of stability.
According to Wilcox, children from families with married parents are more likely to attend college and less likely to spend time in jail, meaning that children born to cohabiting parents are about twice as likely to experience parent separation as children who are born to married parents.
From a point of view of public policy,” we have to acknowledge how important education is in shaping the minds of our young adults and children.”
Although business leaders and CEOs advocate liberal ideas, Wilcox claimed that they also practice more conservative ideals privately.
After having marital issues with his and his wife’s spouses early in their marriage, Wilcox gave an example of one of the Netflix leaders who has a stable marriage with children for more than 30 years. But family ideals are n’t at the forefront of the shows that Netflix produces, he added.
He claimed that they do n’t typically use that authority to inform the general public about how important marriage is to them personally.
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