How Will You Feel Fulfilled This Year?

A look at what makes adulthood "worth" it.

If you spend some time chronically online in the esoteric corners of the Interwebs, you may have seen Brad Wilcox. He is a professor dude at University of Virginia, where he runs some center for marriage and family. Now he has a book, with the basic premise that people should get married because it’s more indicative of a stable society, and he’s making the rounds promoting it and fighting with anti-marriage people and chatting with Savannah Guthrie and all the stuff you do when you have a book that a few people might care to read. He covers a lot of aspects of marriage and relationships, including various cross-sections of research:

Well, the image associated with this post is from Pew Research and not from Wilcox, although I believe Wilcox has discussed it in some of his media hits. The basic idea is that young people think the path to life fulfillment is a job, not marriage or kids. Moral Panic Time! There’s a few things that need to be unpacked here, though.

Achievement vs. Fulfillment