Nearly half of all U.S. marriages end in divorce, and yet America’s loyalty to the ideal of marriage seems rock-solid. That’s one of the contradictions explored by sociologist Andrew Cherlin in his new book, “The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today.”
The Marriage-Go-Round
Nearly half of all U.S. marriages end in divorce, and yet America's loyalty to the ideal of marriage seems rock-solid. That's one of the contradictions explored by sociologist Andrew Cherlin in his new book, "The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today."
Guests:
Andrew Cherlin, author and professor of public policy and sociology at Johns Hopkins University