In his book, “Get Married,” Brad Wilcox, presents a stilted case for why “Americans must defy the elites, forge strong families and save civilization.”

Waving cherry-picked data from recent surveys about a decreased interest in marriage and family, especially among younger women, Wilcox sounded the alarm.

Citing a six-point difference in marriage interest between women and men who identify as single and childless, Wilcox places most of his emphasis on trying to establish that women are the problem. As if all they need to do is look at the data showing older married women answer the happiness surveys affirmatively.

America, he heralds, will suffer if more women don’t heed their biological clocks.

Joining his chorus this week was NYT columnist, Nicholas Kristof. Citing Wilcox in his own call to arms for the institution because “it is worth fighting for marriage,” Kristof, it........

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