Brad Wilcox ✓
@BradWilcoxIFS · Charlottesville, Virginia · joined 20 Jan 2013
Professor @UVA | Fellow @FamStudies | Fellow @AEI | Book: GET MARRIED https://t.co/wLmRAqsysH
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@BradWilcoxIFS Maybe make your next post about this? https://t.co/DHXFMgJ38V
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@BradWilcoxIFS @CarterSkeel One of my least favorite DOGE initiatives was trying to scrap remote work. More flexibility = happier and bigger families!
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"Trad and neotrad families are quite literally shouldering the heaviest burden of sustaining society, and it’s often a thankless job." https://t.co/SyjqqHNcYu
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"The only American families reproducing well above the replacement rate of 2.1 babies are those w/ a married mom at home who works either part-time or not at all." 👇🏽 https://t.co/XGPcuDAR5d
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@BradWilcoxIFS Where are the women? Who are rhe men supposed to marry Brad? Give men jobs and money and power instead of DEI hiring women en masse.
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@BradWilcoxIFS The usual feedback loop is that people are inherently afraid of unhappy men, so they declare these men enemies and punish them (making them even more unhappy). This doesn't happen with women, because our instinct is to comfort an unhappy woman, not to fear her.
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“Such men are more likely to be lonely, prone to deaths of despair and unhappy,” said Brad Wilcox, a University of Virginia sociologist. “It’s never good for a society to have large numbers of unattached, dispirited and unhappy young men.” https://t.co/4fCmyNHLkU
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"Roughly twice as many men aged 18 to 39 were unmarried rather than married in 2025 — way more than 25 years ago. @FamStudies estimated" bachelors in this age group surged 50% since 2000. https://t.co/1mmOONna0T
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"The economy is great," libertarians say, pointing to rosy $ stats.👇🏽
Here's the stat they miss:
Homeownership for young adults ⬇️
1980 → 59% (majority)
Today → 37% (barely a third)
A 22-point collapse in the most visible sign of the American Dream isn't a "great economy." htt
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There's a "chasm between populist pessimism and actual data on Americans’ net worth" -- heck, "the middle class is disappearing… by becoming upper-middle class," argues libertarian @bryan_caplan: https://t.co/E7nMh9pCr6
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"Wendell Berry excels in pointing to precisely those features of human life and happiness that we tend to miss. He is the prophet of the extraordinary beauty of the ordinary." Dr. John Cuddeback, @FamStudies https://t.co/6m1YLgHiYB
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Women’s - esp young women’s - sense that they are treated w/ dignity & respect has collapsed in the wake of the digital revolution. Good job Big Tech.
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@BradWilcoxIFS @Gallup I am just wondering why none of the “scholars” ever mention family law, even though it was the main focus of Moses and Jesus, who considered it more important than statistics and memes... Perhaps you will know—thank you!
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@BradWilcoxIFS @Gallup All the terrible collateral damage along the way to finally come to the very logical conclusion that married parents matter.
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@BradWilcoxIFS @FamStudies You think more of them would stay in VA… that’s the point of UVA, right? To create the next generation of Virginia’s leaders?
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@BradWilcoxIFS Met my wife at work in DC. Similar backgrounds, views, wiring, motivations. And all we did was work. It was like CPA firms were running a dating ap before it was cool. I got a UVa girl! https://t.co/vDSheGmlUE
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"The top 10 regions with the highest marriage rates are" in Middle America, the South + Rocky Mountain West -- areas with stronger marriage cultures, more employed young men & more military bases: https://t.co/3vV6SLnuY8 https://t.co/mtUwgKfEaO
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“My students at UVA are overwhelmingly headed to cities like New York & Washington in pursuit of professional success. There’s only one problem with that. Most of them would also like to get married — and these are less ideal locations for finding a spouse…” See below.👇🏽 https://
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@BradWilcoxIFS Cool! But has @BradWilcoxIFS ever posted anything about family law? In your academic opinion, does family law have any bearing on family formation and family preservation? What might be one’s motivation to not mention family law?
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@BradWilcoxIFS Utah has been using tax dollars to fund the Midas Mindset for decades, pushing trends in the wrong direction.
They’ve recently stopped funding the worst of the worst of this.
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"Many students graduating from prestigious universities move to big cities such as New York or DC to work in finance, consulting, law, or government. What they do not realize is that maximizing career prospects isn’t always good for your love life. Location matters not just for
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@BradWilcoxIFS Ah yes, those videogames that pushed me to engineering and sharpened my problem solving and multitasking skills, so harmful. Should have gotten addicted to alcohol instead
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@compactmag @jameslynch32 @CharlesFLehman did the daily calculations.
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I wrote about Republicans, men and today's Vice Economy for @compactmag w/ @jameslynch32: https://t.co/CFvhccfZlk
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We have a generation of young men trapped in the "addiction economy"—and the numbers are staggering:
☑️ 1-in-8 use porn, gamble & game daily
☑️ Almost 1-in-4 gamble daily
☑️ 1-in-4+ use porn daily https://t.co/R6H72bDU5o
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Ok by popular demand here is the venn diagram https://t.co/SY95q7rOmn
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Against accounts of the same size
28 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views4 678this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %11.75%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.34%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 4 678 | 924 | 5.06× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 11.75% | 3.62% | 3.25× |
| Engagement rate | 0.34% | 1.52% | 0.22× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
2161 Sep
512 Sep
7.5K
9433 Sep
2.7K
2.3K
118.1K8 Sep
599.6K
5.5K
2.1K
68.3K
14.5K
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1.8K9 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.00%1 Sep
1.96%2 Sep
1.79%
1.17%3 Sep
0.11%
0.99%
0.17%8 Sep
0.32%
5.22%
6.53%
1.51%
0.89%
5.68%
7.75%9 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes66.7%8 683 in total
Reposts6.1%791 in total
Replies6.1%794 in total
Quotes5.2%681 in total
Bookmarks15.9%2 074 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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