Surviving The Transformation From Wild Bachelor To Productive Husband

Pop culture lavishes attention on young single men, but it ignores young married men. “Indeed, the young husband has virtually disappeared as a cultural figure or a social type,” says the new State of Our Unions report, issued annually by the National Marriage Project at Rutgers. In real life, though, marriage remains the norm. So, what are today’s young husbands like? To shed some light on that question, the project surveyed heterosexual men (married or single) age 25-34.

Despite popular jests, few young husbands feel they were fitted involuntarily with the proverbial ball and chain.