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We’re unblocked — but a lot of other people aren’t — while Trump appeals.
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Maybe Brad Wilcox didn’t want you to follow the links. Here’s why.
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2017 was a big year for fertility decline, at all but the highest ages, the economy is probably about to tank, and the U.S. fertility rate is still relatively high for our income level.
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I wrote an essay for Cato Unbound, "The Failure of the Success Sequence."
https://www.cato-unbound.org/…/phi…/failure-success-sequence

Philip N. Cohen says that marriage is the weak link in the success sequence.
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One way to visualize change in the most popular names, 2007-2017

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Mary is back on the skids; Donald is going down, Alexa is over, and Malia shows that the resilience of humanity is not. Here are the details.
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Economically, the next marriage they (say they will) get from “marriage promotion” won’t be as good as the average real marriage.
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The American Community Survey collects data on the college majors of people who’ve graduated college. This excellent data has lots of untapped potential for family research, because it tells …
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We count this as evidence on the side of “structure” over “culture” in the debates over the decline in marriage.
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I have spoken well of the policy that permits authors to post preprint versions of their papers before submitting them to journals of the American Sociological Association. That means you can get y…
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Move beyond personal strategies toward the development of the open scholarship as an institutional response that ultimately may be responsible for sociology’s survival.
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Too often sociologists think of social media, or online communications generally, primarily as a way of broadcasting their ideas.
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Very nice review of Enduring Bonds, from Bella DePaulo http://www.unmarried.org/featu…/less-marriage-more-equality/

“The decline in marriage – people spending a smaller portion of their lives married, on average – is part of a larger global transition toward gender equality.”
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