Conservatives want more people to get married and blame social trends. Is it really social trends or economic trends?
The right talks about marriage between one man and one women and blames "wokeness" for all the evils of contemporary family life. What if the problem is not picky leftist over educated women, but an amplification of the same old issue: Class?
"So in particular, if we were to focus on women and ask what has happened to marriage rates for college-educated women at age 45, they’ve declined slightly, from about 78 percent to about 71 percent. But for non-college women, there’s been this huge and steep decline from about 79 percent to now just about 52 percent. And so when one asks what has happened to family and marriage in the U.S., it’s really important to kind of have this class lens, since the decline itself is really focused on Americans without college degrees."
"Goldman: Yeah, absolutely. So I think thus far we’ve focused on these patterns over time. And what you see in the data is that in a period where (1) men are going to college at lower rates than women and (2) non-college men have been struggling economically, that’s been characterized by a period in which marriage rates have been relatively stable for college women and decline sharply for non-college women."
See:
The New Divide in American Marriage
So, has the destruction of the American family really been the destruction of the working and middle class? Has the American family been the collateral damage of neoliberalism? Stable family life versus cheap plastic imported toys? What do you think? Do you have any stories about being pushed to the economic fringes and losing out on the big picture?
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