WALSH: NY Times Article Says Religious Women Are Happier In Marriage. That's No Surprise. Here's Why

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By Matt Walsh
@mattwalshblog
May 21, 2019

In a shocking turn of events, the New York Times published an article confirming that religious conservative women are happier in their marriages than non-religious women. The shocking thing about these findings is that the Times published them. The findings themselves — which, judging by Twitter comments, seem to have scandalized the publication's readership — are no surprise to many of us.

The article mentions community and male involvement in the home as key reasons why religious marriages are often the happiest and strongest. There's a lot of truth to that, of course, but I think there are three other factors as well:

(1) The secular vision of marriage is egalitarian. Egalitarianism in a marriage is fine if it simply means that everyone is contributing to the household. I cook and clean and do most of the same sorts of things my wife does in the home, but not because I'm striving for an "equal marriage." I do it because I'm an adult, not a baby, and this is how adults behave...

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