Fri Aug 4, 2023 – 4:36 pm EDTFri Aug 4, 2023 – 4:36 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The institution of marriage has been maligned, redefined, and condemned as an outdated and repressive institution that is fundamentally outdated in our post-Christian society. Increasingly, people are getting married much later — or not at all. And yet virtually every data set reveals, time and again, that marriage and family make people fundamentally unhappier. New research has affirmed once again that Americans who are married with children are happier and more prosperous than those who are single and childless — and that “nothing currently predicts happiness in life better than a good marriage.” From Unherd:
This truth is borne out yet again in new research from the University of Chicago, which found that marriage is the “the most important differentiator” of who is happy in America, and that falling marriage rates are a chief reason why happiness has declined nationally. The research, surveying thousands of respondents, revealed a startling 30-percentage-point happiness divide between married and unmarried Americans. This happiness boost held true for both men and women.
“Marital status is and has been a very important marker for happiness,” researcher
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