Dr Harry Benson - The Myth That Marriage Doesn’t Matter

Podcast: Hearts of Oak Podcast · heartsofoak

Opublikowano: 2026-09-29

Dr Harry Benson, research director of the Marriage Foundation, joins Peter to make the case that marriage still matters. He explains why two-parent families tend to produce better outcomes for children and less pressure on the state, and why marriage itself — not just background factors like income or education — helps couples stay together. Harry discusses the founding of the Marriage Foundation, the limits of earlier research that downplayed marriage, and the psychological mechanisms that make a public, binding commitment different from cohabitation: it removes ambiguity, signals sacrifice, and creates social accountability. He also talks about his b...