Marital Have-Nots?

Eagleye Blog ^ | August 8, 2012 | Bethany Stotts

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“”DeParle cites Andrew Cherlin, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University, as saying that “It is the privileged Americans who are marrying, and marrying helps them stay privileged.” ...”

What would the world be without sociologists....

Privileged? Is that the new word for achievement based on hard work, delayed gratification, and thoughtful decision making? My father didn't finish high school. No one in my family went to college before me. I worked lots of manual labor jobs while in school. So my degree, and the fact that I didn't get someone pregnant and not marry them when I was in high school or in my early 20s are the result of privilege?

This is just another way of saying ‘you didn't build that’.

[SargeK]

We should add:

And don’t commit crimes. Don’t sell, drugs, don’t rob people, don’t shoot your peers over the color of their hats.