Kay Hymowitz has an excellent article on the "Marriage Gap" in America:
We are becoming a nation of separate and unequal families that threatens to last into the foreseeable future. On the one hand, well-educated women make more money. They get married, only then have their children, and raise them with their husbands. Those children are more likely to grow up to be well-adjusted, to do well in school, to go to college, to marry and only then have children. On the other hand, we have low-income women raising children alone who are more likely to be low-income, to drop out of school or, if they do make it to college, go to a less elite college, and to become single parents themselves.
Marriage, I think you can argue when you look at the numbers, now poses an even larger social divide than race.
(HT: Mere Comments)
Comments (1)
Marriage is an institution invented by man. If there is such a thing as marriage in other spieces is not too well known to be certain as it does in humans .
Marriage is a culture and thus nurtures itself by adhereing to certain 'time tested' norms .
A marriage, theoretically is for ever. It has to last till the end .It there fore takes place ideally between equals, socio- economic -cultural equals . It thus creates and nurtures equivalent classes in society . Any hue and cry about such a perpetuation is rather out of a bad understanding of the institution of marriage.
August 14, 2007 7:26 AM | Comment Permalink