Monday, March 12, 2007
Worth Wedding For - Prison Fellowship
re: "The Washington Post ran a story last weekend announcing that “Numbers Drop for the Married With Children,” in which staff writer Blaine Harden quotes demographers who “peg the rise of a class-based marriage gap to the erosion since 1970 of the broad-based economic prosperity that followed World War II.” Marriage with children has become an exception rather than the norm, she writes. /The piece bothered me for a number of reasons. First, as my colleague Roberto Rivera frequently notes, correlation does not equal causation; and as Harden acknowledges later on in her piece (and in her blog posts), factors other than economics hugely influence the marriage decision..."...
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