Issue #22.16 :: 04/20/2010 – 04/26/2010
Brad Wilcox, Sociologist
The media’s go-to guy on happy marriage
BY C-VILLE WEEKLY WRITERS
As if marriage and money weren’t complicated enough, Brad Wilcox will tell you that a recession can cut to the heart of a couple’s stability. That’s because money, apparently, leads to happiness.
Wilcox is the Director of the National Marriage Project. He has discovered that a sound financial situation is a vital dimension for a long, happy marriage. His most recent “State of Our Unions” survey asserts that during an economic depression, working-class men are 61 percent more likely to be unhappy in a marriage if they work fewer hours than their wives.
How often Wilcox’s phone rings is impossible to say, but know that the Washington Post, CBS Evening News, USA Today and Newsweek, among others, all have wanted a piece of Wilcox’s expertise.
