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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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