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Tuesday Aug 27, 2019
Brad Wilcox and Eugene Scott: Marriage Matters in the Age of Trump
Tuesday Aug 27, 2019
Tuesday Aug 27, 2019
In the latest episode of Faith Angle, we take a look at the changing nature of marriage in America with Eugene Scott and Brad Wilcox. Eugene covers identity politics for the Washington Post's The Fix, and Brad is Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies.
Brad, Eugene, and Josh Good discuss trends around marriage in the current political climate; how factors like class and race affect the health of marriages; economics and the importance of gainful employment (especially for men); the connection between marriage and economic mobility; the effects of delayed marriage among young people, and much more.
Links from this episode:
Eugene Scott, Washington Post
Brad Wilcox, National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia
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