{"id":583,"date":"2014-01-17T15:11:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T19:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2019-03-24T07:17:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T11:17:21","slug":"giving-marriage-the-old-college-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewcochran.net\/blog\/giving-marriage-the-old-college-try\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Marriage the Old College Try"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a new piece up at the Federalist.\u00a0 Long story short:\u00a0 those of us who believe that marriage is essential to civilization need to do a better job of encouraging it–not to strangers through legislation or mass media, but among the children whom God has entrusted to our care.<\/p>\n

It would be foolish of parents who so value a college education to content themselves with telling their little children that they\u2019ll come across the right college someday and feel in their heart that it\u2019s the right one when it happens. They wouldn\u2019t disregard their high school students\u2019 academic indicators, content that the right college won\u2019t be shallow enough to care about such things. They would hardly resign themselves to passively watching their offspring occasionally audit classes that look fun or sign up for a correspondence course from time to time, remaining silent except for the occasional passive-aggressive comment at Thanksgiving dinner that it would be nice to see them settle down with a nice B.A. program. If parents think of college as extremely important, avoiding this uninvolved approach would be a no-brainer. It\u2019s too key to a child\u2019s future to approach the goal so casually.<\/p>\n

It is therefore a stark contrast when we compare parents\u2019 dedication to getting their children into a good college with their dedication to getting their children into a good marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the whole thing here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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