Finding love is hard. Making love deepen and last is even harder. If reality TV is any indication, love has gone off the rails in America.

Contrary to so much of what women read about modern romance, the men on FYI’s reality show Married at First Sight are eager to commit. It’s the women who are either ambivalent or outright negative. They say they want love and marriage, but it’s not clear they are all relationship-ready. And I suspect feminism is part of the problem.

What Feminism Did To Us

Before feminists complain I’m an ingrate, let’s acknowledge that the organized feminist movement has true accomplishments, like expanding women’s professional opportunities. However, I take issue with the Second Wave’s fight against the institutions of marriage and motherhood.

In writing about “the divorce revolution,” family studies scholar Brad Wilcox noted that “increases in women’s employment as well as feminist consciousness-raising also did their part to drive up the divorce rate, as wives felt freer in the late ‘60s and ‘70s to leave marriages that were abusive or that they found unsatisfying.”

Read the article “Married At First Sight Explains Why Americans Can’t Commit” on thefederalist.com.