<p><strong>A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read</strong></p><p><strong>What's the recipe for happiness? If you listen to liberal elites or red pill influencers, you'd say it's making money, living for yourself, and staying single without kids</strong><strong>--and you'd be wrong. Nothing predicts happiness better than a good marriage. </strong></p><p> According to new research by the University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox, our kids and communities--not to mention our civilization as a whole--are much more likely to flourish when the state of our unions is strong. Despite this, record numbers of Americans are not succeeding at getting or staying married.</p><p>In this hard-hitting book, Wilcox reveals the anti-family messages and policies coming out of Holly-wood, Washington, the media, academia, and corporate America that have weakened marriage. Along the way, he knocks down a number of myths they've propa-gated. He reveals: </p><p>- Both men and women who get and stay married accumulate much greater wealth than people who don't marry.</p><p>- Married men and women with families report more meaningful lives, compared with their single and childless peers.</p><p>- Couples who take a "we-before-me" approach to married life--by, for instance, sharing joint checking accounts--are happier and less divorce-prone than couples who do not.</p><p>- Couples who forge "family-first" marriages--characterized by frequent date nights, family fun time, <em>and </em>chores done with the ki