How Welfare Programs Discourage Marriage: The Case of Pre-K Education Subsidies
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How Welfare Programs Discourage Marriage: The Case of Pre-K Education Subsidies
- This growing decline in familial support for raising children—and college-educated women becoming the lynchpin for knowledge work in America— meant that demand for paid family services has increased dramatically. In the 1990s and 2000s, this question of how to support working parents became another front in the culture war.
from Can Zoom Save the American Family? by Katherine Boyle
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One of the most disturbing facts about American marriage today is that while divorce increased at similar rates for the wealthy and the poor in the 1960s and ’70s, those rates diverged sharply starting around 1980. According to the sociologist Steven P. Martin, among Americans who married between 1975 and 1979, the 10-year divorce rate was 28 perce
... See morefrom Opinion | The All-or-Nothing Marriage (Published 2014) by Eli J. Finkel
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“So if you are a reasonably well-educated person with a decent income, come from an intact family and are religious, and marry after twenty-five without having a baby first, your chances of divorce are low indeed.”11
from The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God by Kathy Keller