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Marrying Later

Getting married. Americans are doing it later in life than ever before. And a new report says that is leading to some unexpected consequences.

The Virginia-based director of the National Marriage Project says some of those consequences are quite good. Some are not.

Guest:
W. Bradford Wilcox, Ph.D.
- Director of the National Marriage Project. Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia. Co-author of the report Knot Yet: The Benefits and Costs of Delayed Marriage in America.

Additional Contributor:
Kay S. Hymowitz, M.A. - William E. Simon Fellow, Manhattan Institute. Author of Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys (Basic Books). Co-author of the report Knot Yet: The Benefits and Costs of Delayed Marriage in America.

Tom Graham was Senior Producer and host of WMRA's Virginia Insight from 2006 to 2015.