This year, women said ‘enough’ to modern marriage

The institution has progressed from its earliest, brutal form. But Marriage 3.0 still hands men the lion's share of benefits

It sounds absurd, but the most compelling display of the collapse of modern American marriage in 2023 is happening on a show about Mormon polygamists.

For 18 seasons, TLC's Sister Wives has followed Kody Brown and his four loudly Caucasian wives, who share 18 children and several houses in Arizona. The show started as a saccharine docu-soap about an unorthodox family trying to fit into an increasingly modern world. Now, I watch with rapt interest, practically foaming at the mouth, as one by one Kody's wives leave him.