I . . . Do?
Why Marriage Still Matters
- Marriage, Family & Relationships
- Publisher: Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2024
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Publisher's Description
For many today, marriage is a nice thing, but not necessary. I . . . Do? is a book to help you reconsider the central importance of marriage, not simply for the couples involved, but for all of us. Plenty of research suggests that a good marriage encourages health, wellness, and happiness and that the goodness of marriage extends into our communities. To this, the retort comes quickly--well that's the result of a good marriage. Yet instead of nurturing good marriages, we are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Marriage is not the solution to every problem. It remains, however, an ideal to which we can aspire. This book connects the dots between statistics, public policy problems, and people's experiences. A better understanding of the attributes of marriage allows each one of us to invest deeper meaning into our relationships as well as enhancing and creating stronger communities. The authors equip readers with the language and logic of marriage, using secular research. By imagining that marriage still matters, we can learn to properly support and nurture marriage, for the good of the world.
Endorsements (8)
“I . . . Do? combines timely insights regarding the contemporary value of our most important institution with a compelling call to revive its fortunes.”
“My Cardus colleagues convincingly show that marriage matters—even for those who are not married or consider marriage a relic of a bygone religious age.”
“This book’s most important contribution reminds us that marriage can be a shelter from life’s inevitable storms and also a marvelous partnership with sublime joy on the journey between life’s valleys and peaks.”
“In this scrupulously objective, gently polemical treatment of their subject, Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell defend the importance of marriage against its myriad challenges, promoting its benefits with tact, thoughtfulness, and sincerity.”
“Marriage is not simply a ‘lifestyle choice’ or a useful social engineering tool. It is a primordial institution that speaks to our deepest needs, which is why it also does matter so much to happy individuals and happy societies. In this book, Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell provide a calm, balanced and thoughtful introduction to its nature, meaning and lasting importance.”
“Who cares about marriage? Just a few decades ago, it was the norm that if you had kids you were married. Today marriage, for many, has become nice but unnecessary. Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell expertly lay out the case for why marriage influences almost every social outcome that you might care to mention. Read this and find out why all of us should care about marriage.”
“What might a healthy marriage culture look like in a post-Christian society? A much-needed reassessment of the fruits of the sexual revolution has finally begun, and with it, a revaluation of the place and importance marriage in society. I . . . Do? by Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell is an essential addition to a growing genre that includes recent books such as The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry, Feminism Against Progress by Mary Harrington, The Rights of Women by Erika Bachiochi, and Get Married by Brad Wilcox. With sociological data, personal anecdotes, and policy prescriptions, Mrozek and Mitchell make a compelling, non-religious and must-read pitch.”
“If institutions are social technologies that enable humans to thrive, then marriage is something like a vaccine: not strictly necessary for personal or social survival, but extremely helpful at the individual level and critical at the collective level. In this thoughtful, authoritative survey of recent developments, debates, and research about modern marriage, Mrozek and Mitchell demonstrate how all of us - young or old, religious or secular, gay or straight, married or not - benefit from a culture with matrimony at its center.”
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