All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
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Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.
I just read 'The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.' To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father.
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.
There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.
This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.
The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.
There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
A lot of people seem to want to make the institution of marriage substitute for a real relationship.
Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.
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