BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Fundamental Attribution Error, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 39.2% saturation with 65 hits. Analysis detected 224 faulty-reasoning hits from 166 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 54.8% and a BS Rank of 58% (9,220 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 57.90% of the article peer group.
Coontz is an expert on family and gender, and she’s written about marriage before, so she’s well-placed to explain why marriage rates have fallen — even as most people still think of it as a profoundly important commitment.
Women today are less certain than men about wanting to get married in the first place.
And divorce rates among those who do tie the knot are the lowest they’ve been in decades.
Coontz says the changes are because of a complicated mix of shifting expectations, gender roles and sexual norms that have resulted in today’s confused understanding of marriage.
She’s joining us to talk about how to chart a course forward.
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Stephanie Coontz | She’s the director of research and public education for the council on contemporary families.
She’s also a professor emeritus at The Evergreen State College.
Her latest book is called “For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage.”
Airdate: June 3, 2026
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