“When young men and women do marry, they typically smoke less, drink less, and use illegal drugs less. For example, single men drink almost twice as much as married men of the same age. In a recent national survey, one out of four young single men (ages 19 to 26) say their drinking causes them problems at work or problems with aggression, compared to about one in seven married guys the same age.”

Maggie Gallagher serves as Director of the Marriage Program at Institute for American Values and co-authored The Case for Marriage with Linda J. Waite