Category Archives: Replacing Marriage

A dangerous truth.

Posted on August 27, 2019 by Dalrock

The Institute for Family Studies has an essay by Professor W. Bradford Wilcox, titled Marriage Facilitates Responsible Fatherhood.  According to the editor’s note the essay is an abbreviated version of Wilcox’s testimony to he House Ways and Means Committee for … Continue reading →

Posted in Child Custody, Child Support, Denial, Disrespecting Respectability, Fatherhood, Feminists, Marriage, National Marriage Project, National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse, Replacing Marriage, Threatpoint, Traditional Conservatives, W. Bradford Wilcox | 183 Comments

Should we fine tune our replacement of marriage?

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Dalrock

Workingmother.com has a post up about the question of whether men should be able to legally opt out of fatherhood: The woman said the idea came from a friend—a woman who had a child out of a friends-with-benefits situation with … Continue reading →

Posted in Child Custody, Child Support, Chivalry, Illegitimacy, Marriage, Replacing Marriage, Romantic Love | 216 Comments

Incentives matter.

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Dalrock

The U.S. and our allies won the Cold War in part because we had a far superior economic system.  The Soviets relied on a quota system enforced by threats of imprisonment.  The U.S. and its allies on the other hand … Continue reading →

Posted in Child Support, Disrespecting Respectability, Dr. Helen, Economics, Fatherhood, Instapundit, Patriarchal Dividend, Replacing Marriage, Traditional Conservatives, Weak men screwing feminism up | 397 Comments

More bad news for marriage is baked in.

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Dalrock

Back in September W. Bradford Wilcox and Wendy Wang published an American Enterprise Institute report titled The Marriage Divide: How and Why Working-Class Families Are More Fragile Today.  I’ve written previously about the NYT response to the report, but not … Continue reading →

Posted in American Enterprise Institute, Data, Illegitimacy, Legitimacy, Marriage, NCFMR, Replacing Marriage, W. Bradford Wilcox | 69 Comments

Let them become elite.

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Dalrock

The New York Times has made a stir with How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege? Marriage, which used to be the default way to form a family in the United States, regardless of income or education, has become … Continue reading →

Posted in Child Support, Marriage, Replacing Marriage, Traditional Conservatives, W. Bradford Wilcox, Weak men screwing feminism up | 211 Comments