UVA professor: get married young

[Anonymous]

He’s a very well respected, popular conservative sociology professor. My dd took his class though she didn’t agree with anything he believed, she respected him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He’s a very well respected, popular conservative sociology professor. My dd took his class though she didn’t agree with anything he believed, she respected him.

I haven’t read the 10+ pages on this thread, but Brad Wilcox’s research has a very clear pro-marriage agenda. He goes out of his way to frame his findings around promoting marriage. For example, he’ll show that children raised by marriage parents have better financial outcomes, but he’ll ignore the fact that people with college degrees are more likely to get and stay married. So it’s not marriage itself that leads to those outcomes. He runs a research center at UVA mostly dedicated to promoting marriage and pronatalist research. I’ve met him at sociology conferences. Pleasant guy, but questionable scholarship.

As an aside, as a sociologists, I was both annoyed and amused a few months ago when someone started a thread on sociology majors and there were pages of comments bashing it as an easy major for kids who aren’t so smart. Yet folks here love to talk about issues sociologists study, like work, family and demographics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People don't like the truth. I made sure to be married by 30 and was a few years early. 30 year anniversary this year. It gets harder for women after 30. It just does. Facts. I wasn't going to turn into a 40 year old single cat lady with no kids. And I didn't.

Ok, [url]MAGA trash. [b]

Why do you roll this out without even thinking? You are wasting everyone’s time with there brilliant assumptions of yours that anyone arguing a position different than your own is MAGA. We’re getting tired of it.

+1
I've started reporting aholes who hurl this out at anyone who disagrees with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He’s a very well respected, popular conservative sociology professor. My dd took his class though she didn’t agree with anything he believed, she respected him.

I haven’t read the 10+ pages on this thread, but Brad Wilcox’s research has a very clear pro-marriage agenda. He goes out of his way to frame his findings around promoting marriage. For example, he’ll show that children raised by marriage parents have better financial outcomes, but he’ll ignore the fact that people with college degrees are more likely to get and stay married. So it’s not marriage itself that leads to those outcomes. He runs a research center at UVA mostly dedicated to promoting marriage and pronatalist research. I’ve met him at sociology conferences. Pleasant guy, but questionable scholarship.

As an aside, as a sociologists, I was both annoyed and amused a few months ago when someone started a thread on sociology majors and there were pages of comments bashing it as an easy major for kids who aren’t so smart. Yet folks here love to talk about issues sociologists study, like work, family and demographics.

The bolded is absolutely true. And it doesn't sound like he's advising anyone to skip college. You can still get a college degree and marry relatively early.
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/22/1207322878/single-parent-married-good-for-children-inequality
https://acpeds.org/marriage-divorce-and-family-relations-effect-on-children/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Married at 25. Just had our 14 year anniversary. 2 kids in elementary school.

We’ve had a lot of big life/traumatic events happen at young ages. We’ve grown together and we’ve grown as individuals. We are so different now than when we met in college. I think the key is open communication and accepting change. And truly accepting the other person for who they are.

We have definitely Benefitted from a young marriage. And while money felt tight in the beginning when we had young careers, a new home, and a baby, now we’re hitting our stride and I’m grateful that I will be only about 49 when my oldest graduates college.

You have two kids in elementary school and you are on here?
Assuming you’re not a troll, go spend some time with your family. Way, way too early to be here.
Or go back to your homework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People don't like the truth. I made sure to be married by 30 and was a few years early. 30 year anniversary this year. It gets harder for women after 30. It just does. Facts. I wasn't going to turn into a 40 year old single cat lady with no kids. And I didn't.

Ok, [url]MAGA trash. [b]

Why do you roll this out without even thinking? You are wasting everyone’s time with there brilliant assumptions of yours that anyone arguing a position different than your own is MAGA. We’re getting tired of it.

+1
I've started reporting aholes who hurl this out at anyone who disagrees with them.

+1. I guess I will too. It’s everywhere but Jeff may not delete

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He’s a very well respected, popular conservative sociology professor. My dd took his class though she didn’t agree with anything he believed, she respected him.

I haven’t read the 10+ pages on this thread, but Brad Wilcox’s research has a very clear pro-marriage agenda. He goes out of his way to frame his findings around promoting marriage. For example, he’ll show that children raised by marriage parents have better financial outcomes, but he’ll ignore the fact that people with college degrees are more likely to get and stay married. So it’s not marriage itself that leads to those outcomes. He runs a research center at UVA mostly dedicated to promoting marriage and pronatalist research. I’ve met him at sociology conferences. Pleasant guy, but questionable scholarship.

As an aside, as a sociologists, I was both annoyed and amused a few months ago when someone started a thread on sociology majors and there were pages of comments bashing it as an easy major for kids who aren’t so smart. Yet folks here love to talk about issues sociologists study, like work, family and demographics.

The bolded is absolutely true. And it doesn't sound like he's advising anyone to skip college. You can still get a college degree and marry relatively early.
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/22/1207322878/single-parent-married-good-for-children-inequality
https://acpeds.org/marriage-divorce-and-family-relations-effect-on-children/

I think you missed the point here. It’s not that the bolded isn’t true, it’s that he attributes this outcome to marriage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He’s a very well respected, popular conservative sociology professor. My dd took his class though she didn’t agree with anything he believed, she respected him.

I haven’t read the 10+ pages on this thread, but Brad Wilcox’s research has a very clear pro-marriage agenda. He goes out of his way to frame his findings around promoting marriage. For example, he’ll show that children raised by marriage parents have better financial outcomes, but he’ll ignore the fact that people with college degrees are more likely to get and stay married. So it’s not marriage itself that leads to those outcomes. He runs a research center at UVA mostly dedicated to promoting marriage and pronatalist research. I’ve met him at sociology conferences. Pleasant guy, but questionable scholarship.

As an aside, as a sociologists, I was both annoyed and amused a few months ago when someone started a thread on sociology majors and there were pages of comments bashing it as an easy major for kids who aren’t so smart. Yet folks here love to talk about issues sociologists study, like work, family and demographics.

Questionable only to you. Different ideas should be welcomed at universities he has amazing credentials. He got tenure. He’s published. What’s the issue?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He’s a very well respected, popular conservative sociology professor. My dd took his class though she didn’t agree with anything he believed, she respected him.

I haven’t read the 10+ pages on this thread, but Brad Wilcox’s research has a very clear pro-marriage agenda. He goes out of his way to frame his findings around promoting marriage. For example, he’ll show that children raised by marriage parents have better financial outcomes, but he’ll ignore the fact that people with college degrees are more likely to get and stay married. So it’s not marriage itself that leads to those outcomes. He runs a research center at UVA mostly dedicated to promoting marriage and pronatalist research. I’ve met him at sociology conferences. Pleasant guy, but questionable scholarship.

As an aside, as a sociologists, I was both annoyed and amused a few months ago when someone started a thread on sociology majors and there were pages of comments bashing it as an easy major for kids who aren’t so smart. Yet folks here love to talk about issues sociologists study, like work, family and demographics.

Questionable only to you. Different ideas should be welcomed at universities he has amazing credentials. He got tenure. He’s published. What’s the issue?

Spurious correlations and causal fallacies caused by inherent bias, for one.
DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He’s a very well respected, popular conservative sociology professor. My dd took his class though she didn’t agree with anything he believed, she respected him.

wtf does that even mean? Would she respect a math teacher that got all the problems wrong?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He’s a very well respected, popular conservative sociology professor. My dd took his class though she didn’t agree with anything he believed, she respected him.

I haven’t read the 10+ pages on this thread, but Brad Wilcox’s research has a very clear pro-marriage agenda. He goes out of his way to frame his findings around promoting marriage. For example, he’ll show that children raised by marriage parents have better financial outcomes, but he’ll ignore the fact that people with college degrees are more likely to get and stay married. So it’s not marriage itself that leads to those outcomes. He runs a research center at UVA mostly dedicated to promoting marriage and pronatalist research. I’ve met him at sociology conferences. Pleasant guy, but questionable scholarship.

As an aside, as a sociologists, I was both annoyed and amused a few months ago when someone started a thread on sociology majors and there were pages of comments bashing it as an easy major for kids who aren’t so smart. Yet folks here love to talk about issues sociologists study, like work, family and demographics.

Questionable only to you. Different ideas should be welcomed at universities he has amazing credentials. He got tenure. He’s published. What’s the issue?

This has not been peer reviewed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People don't like the truth. I made sure to be married by 30 and was a few years early. 30 year anniversary this year. It gets harder for women after 30. It just does. Facts. I wasn't going to turn into a 40 year old single cat lady with no kids. And I didn't.

Ok, [url]MAGA trash. [b]

Why do you roll this out without even thinking? You are wasting everyone’s time with there brilliant assumptions of yours that anyone arguing a position different than your own is MAGA. We’re getting tired of it.

What response do you want to see to the tired CaT lAdY stuff that's constantly tossed out? Stop whining already.

[Anonymous]

Tell guys to start marrying early. Why is the pressure always on women?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People don't like the truth. I made sure to be married by 30 and was a few years early. 30 year anniversary this year. It gets harder for women after 30. It just does. Facts. I wasn't going to turn into a 40 year old single cat lady with no kids. And I didn't.

Ok, [url]MAGA trash. [b]

Why do you roll this out without even thinking? You are wasting everyone’s time with there brilliant assumptions of yours that anyone arguing a position different than your own is MAGA. We’re getting tired of it.

+1
I've started reporting aholes who hurl this out at anyone who disagrees with them.

+1. I guess I will too. It’s everywhere but Jeff may not delete

“Childless cat lady” is a derogatory term currently being pushed by MAGA. Don’t want to be called MAGA? Don’t talk like one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He’s a very well respected, popular conservative sociology professor. My dd took his class though she didn’t agree with anything he believed, she respected him.

I haven’t read the 10+ pages on this thread, but Brad Wilcox’s research has a very clear pro-marriage agenda. He goes out of his way to frame his findings around promoting marriage. For example, he’ll show that children raised by marriage parents have better financial outcomes, but he’ll ignore the fact that people with college degrees are more likely to get and stay married. So it’s not marriage itself that leads to those outcomes. He runs a research center at UVA mostly dedicated to promoting marriage and pronatalist research. I’ve met him at sociology conferences. Pleasant guy, but questionable scholarship.

As an aside, as a sociologists, I was both annoyed and amused a few months ago when someone started a thread on sociology majors and there were pages of comments bashing it as an easy major for kids who aren’t so smart. Yet folks here love to talk about issues sociologists study, like work, family and demographics.

Both could be true. Not saying they are but they aren’t mutually exclusive.