The silly season of Brad Wilcox’s new book is upon us

Consider this incontrovertible fact, getting married leads inevitably to one of three outcomes: divorce, widowhood, or death.

What your stock photo family says about your tired, regressive ideology

That's the question for the "Institute" for "Family" "Studies" and The "Ethics" and Public Policy "Center," regarding their new report, and the accompanying NY Times op-ed promo piece. The Times's op-ed illustrator had the good sense at least to make their Leave It to Beaver graphic tongue-in-cheek: In contrast, the report itself featured an extremely…

Science says: Get married at age Whatever You Want (and these are the odds of divorce)

Divorce odds are lowest for women who marry later, and for people who've been married a long time.

Very important social scientist says — wait, Brad Wilcox did what now?

The best news you'll read all day.

Divorce fell in one Florida county (and 31 others), and you will totally believe what happened next

You can really do a lot with the common public misperception that divorce is always going up.

Wilcox plagiarism denial and ethics review

The only argument he makes is to underline the word "not." So do you trust him?

Wilcox and colleagues plagiarized my work in the New York Times

You could split hairs, but why?

Do rich people like bad data tweets about poor people? (Bins, slopes, and graphs edition)

How a Brad Wilcox tweet taught me nothing at all, but inspired me to write this post.

The happiness scamcession

Eight pretty happy men in the General Social Survey changed the course of history.

Who are you gonna marry? That one big assumption marriage promotion gets totally wrong

Economically, the next marriage they (say they will) get from "marriage promotion" won't be as good as the average real marriage.