Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on June 15, 2026. Click here for that audio.
Author and relationship coach Allison Raskin doesn’t see falling marriage rates as a bad thing and pushes back on the idea of the government incentivizing people to get married and have big families.
Raskin and her husband, John Blakeslee, co-host a podcast together called “Starter Marriage.”
They both join Here & Now’s Indira Lakshmanan to talk about how millennials are approaching modern marriage differently than past generations.
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