Brad Wilcox
@BradWilcoxIFS
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Taylor Swift isn't an outlier for going wild over "that's my husband." Wives who rate their husbands as more masculine happier & far less likely to be considering divorce.
✔️ 74% of wives w/ more masculine husbands are "very happy" in their marriage vs. 69% of wives w/ less masculine husbands.
✔️ 64% say divorce is "not at all likely" vs. 45% for less masculine husbands.
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Becoming a mom at 25 vs. 45: 20 fewer years with your child. And the grandchild years disappear entirely: 31 → 11 → 0.
(Assuming one lives til @ early 80s)
1. You cannot understand this cultural and political moment unless you reckon with how lonely, disconnected, and "demoralized" a very large minority of young men in America have become.
Roughly 4-in-10 young men aged 18-29 feel like failures, report chronic loneliness, are absent from religious, civic, or volunteer life, and lose themselves in digital worlds of porn, gaming, and gambling. This is what the digital revolution has wrought: a generation of young men adrift, disengaged, and drifting--too often bereft of connections to real people and real institutions in the real world.
Major new report on "America's Demoralized Men" from @FamStudies Joe Davis, Michael Toscano & @KBurchfiel3:
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Falling fertility is not driven by teens. It’s driven by 20something women.
@WendyRWang: “the drop in births among women ages 20 to 29 accounts for 78% of overall decline in the total fertility rate.”
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