The Mission

It wouldn't be a problem if everyone had decided they didn't want marriage at all. But that's not what happened.

Teenagers went off to college, toiled tirelessly to build careers, planned for futures that included every major milestone — only to find that the things they took for granted had suddenly slipped beyond their grasp.

The basic, fundamental human longing for love, family, and belonging has been stymied. Yet the desire for those things hasn't gone anywhere. For those who tackle this challenge with the same grit that carried them through years at the grindstone, victory is wrested within a dystopian maze of increasingly invasive, expensive, and complex solutions.

This isn't a personal failing — though hundreds of singles who have come through our doors often believe otherwise. It's a systemic oversight. A generation taught to prioritize grades, status, and financial achievement over human life.

How do we help the generation that did everything right — everything they were told — yet travel through life intimately alone? How do we better equip future generations?

The Problem At Scale

The destruction of marriage and family formation isn't only a personal crisis playing out in millions of individual lives. It's a global concern.

Critically, the U.S. birth rate crisis is not driven by married couples having fewer children — that rate has held relatively steady for decades. It is driven by fewer people getting married at all.^[17] In China, marriages crashed 55% from their 2013 peak to just 6.1 million in 2024.^[18]

For couples who successfully achieve a live birth, the average monthly cost of infant and childcare now exceeds $2,400 — up 32% since 2019.^[4]

The Cost

The financial case for marriage focuses on what remains possible to build. The opportunity ahead compounds just as surely as the opportunity cost in the rearview. The data is unambiguous.

Research consistently finds a "marriage wage premium" for men — married men tend to earn more, be perceived as more stable and productive by employers, and advance further professionally than unmarried counterparts.^[6]

The health data is equally clear. Married men have a lower risk of depression, better cognitive function as they age, reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease, and better outcomes when hospitalized.^[7] A 2024 cross-country study found that unmarried individuals showed higher rates of depressive symptoms across all seven countries studied — with the effect especially pronounced among highly educated men in Western nations.^[8]

The Plan

Good Hearts Meet is a non-profit campaigning to help adult singles achieve their family goals, while giving the next generation a fighting chance to seize their window of opportunity.

Since 2020, we have counseled hundreds of singles across the country; created support groups, hosted workshops, attended countless singles events, and conducted research inside churches and communities. We are now launching a rigorous, multi-disciplinary research initiative aligning with statistical standards in psychology and sociology — alongside a growing network of ministry partners in churches and schools.

About the Founder

Founding Member — Advisory Seat

Good Hearts Meet is building its board, and offering two Founding Member, Advisor seats. This is a ground-floor opportunity to affiliate with an organization addressing one of the most urgent social issues of our time, at the moment it begins to scale. Founding Advisors carry no governance burden and no meeting requirements.

What You Receive

Five meaningful commitments from Good Hearts Meet to every Founding Advisor:

If you are reading this, it is because someone who knows you thought you might be the right fit — and because we agree. Please consider stepping into Good Hearts Meet as a Founding Member of our mission.