In a commencement address at Georgia Tech over the weekend, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker left graduates with “one controversial antidote that I believe will have a lasting impact for generations to come.”
“Get married and start a family,” the two-time Super Bowl champ told the crowd. “I don’t care if you have a successful career. … In the end, no matter how much money you attain, none of it will matter if you are alone and devoid of purpose.”
Two-time Catholic Super Bowl Champ Harrison Butker gives graduates most important advice of their lives: “GET MARRIED AND START A FAMILY.”
Every young person needs to listen to this today.🙏
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 6, 2023
Butker’s advice is on target, but few young people today are following it. Fewer than half of U.S. households are comprised of married couples (and the majority of those are households without children). In 2018, more than a third of Americans between the ages of 25 and 50 had never been married, and a quarter of young people may never marry in their lives.
Further, nearly 1 in 5 adults aged 55-64 in 2018 was childless. In a Pew survey, nearly half (44 percent) of “non-parents ages 18 to 49” said they weren’t likely to have kids. By far the most common reason they gave for not planning to have children is they “just don’t want to.”
Unsurprisingly, the decision to ditch marriage and parenthood to instead “keep options open” and chase
