Is Marriage a Commitment Device?

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Michael Wolraich: Marriage is a commitment device that increases exit with loss of exit. But i now think it's really a commitment around raising kids together, not so much about wigan estate as more like coparent in contract. When married couples break up, both parents remain very close to the children on average. So divorced parents much more like stay in touch than unmarried parents. I don't be like larry king, you know, and forget he had his boys at 70 something. Ok, maybe that's pushing it a little bit, right? Yes, ight. But, but i do think that whell, itsm to me.

Shermer and Reeves discuss: • comparison method: U.S. vs. other WERID countries • education • work/labor market • family • marriage • Divorce/custody/spousal support/child support • intersectionality I: Black boys and men vs. White boys and men • intersectionality II: poor boys and men vs. middle class/upper class boys and men • What is a man? (nature and nurture in the making of a male) • what the political left gets wrong about boys and men • what the political right gets wrong about boys and men • solutions: red shirt boys early; men in STEM and HEAL • fatherhood as an independent institution

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Boys and Men Project and holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. He is the author of Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It(2017) and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic.