Marriage Rates: Charlie Kirk on the Decline in Commitment

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Marriage rates and the broader decline in family formation are subjects Charlie Kirk addressed from both economic and cultural angles. At the Republican National Convention, Kirk told Gen Z voters that home prices had risen 47 percent since 2020, pricing homeownership out of reach for most young Americans and, in his framing, delaying or preventing the marriages and families that typically follow financial stability. Culturally, Kirk debated feminist commentator Tilly Middlehurst directly on whether modern women's roles have improved happiness or contributed to declining marriage and fertility rates across Western countries, pressing her on basic definitions before addressing the material benefits she associated with women's expanded public roles. Commentator Steven Crowder made a related argument using pop singer Olivia Rodrigo's contradictory public statements about marriage and motherhood as an example of how feminist messaging leaves young women conflicted about aligning their stated ambitions with their underlying desires. At Turning Point USA's Young Women's Leadership Summit, Kirk and his wife Erika addressed the marriage decline more directly still, with Erika advocating for sexual purity before marriage and Charlie challenging both young men and women to examine their own roles in a dating culture he argues has actively undermined commitment.