Posted on 08/09/2012 8:04:48 PM PDT by eagleye85
In a recent article published in the New York Times, reporter Jason DeParle casts the fact that more lower-class mothers are having children out of wedlock as a product of class conflict. He posits a theory of marital “scarcity” in which the upper classes have greater access to marriage than the poorer classes.
DeParle paints a bleak picture, writing that “College-educated Americans like the Faulkners are increasingly likely to marry one another, compounding their growing advantages in pay.” He reports that “Less-educated women like Ms. [Jessica] Schairer, who left college without finishing her degree, are growing less likely to marry at all, raising children on pinched paychecks that come in ones, not twos.”
He continues, “Estimates vary widely, but scholars have said that changes in marriage patterns — as opposed to changes in individual earnings — may account for as much as 40 percent of the growth in certain measures of inequality.”
“Long concentrated among minorities, motherhood outside marriage now varies by class about as much as it does by race,” he reports.“Less than 10 percent of the births to college-educated women occur outside marriage, while for women with high school degrees or less the figure is nearly 60 percent,” writes DeParle (emphasis added).
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.” ...
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1) Stay in school
2) Get married before you have kids
3) Get a job. Any job.
You will most likely not be poor. Deviate from any of these 3 points, and you are on the path to poverty.
True morality does not depend on material wealth.
My Wife was out of High School 2 weeks when we married in 1962.
We raised 7 kids that are raising their kids.
We all make choices, and are affected by the choices we make.
Walter Williams adds stay out of jail to that list.
I work with someone who has been in a relationship with a woman for many years. They have a child together and live together but won’t marry because of all the benefits he would have to pay for if they did.
I would modify #2, at the risk of being a “prude”, to “don’t have sex before you get married”. It makes the “having kids” part a non-issue.
Just gotta do it? Get married and stay married.
As I heard recently,
we’re all free to make our own choices,
but what we’re not free to do is choose the consequences for those choices.
Once again, the gov’t skews society with perverse incentives.
I am most glad that she chose me.
My Wife was out of High School 2 weeks when we married in 1962.
We raised 7 kids that are raising their kids.
We all make choices, and are affected by the choices we make.
Here’s something you should read before posting any more excerpts of your own work.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2882227/posts
(That “Jim” guy - he owns the place.)
Consequently the women who are on welfare and other forms of government support tend to be unmarried.
But given the source (NY Slimes) it's understandable they get this sort of thing bass-ackwards.
Mark
So, I read the NYT article. Dopey young woman leaved her very white, rural hometown, goes off to college, and gets knocked up by “her boyfriend, an African-American student from Arkansas, said they should start a family.”
Gee, he later abandoned the woman and the three kids. He pays no child support. I’m shocked! Shocked, I say!
Actually, his advice is "Obey the law."
You make it sound like he's saying "Don't get caught."
It says that when she got her tax refund, she paid her rent six months in advance. So she understands the idea of planning for the future. And yet she still has three kids out of wedlock.
Proverbs 1:18 - And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
It’s Freud’s reality principle.
Our laws are not Just and equal. They discriminate and reward immorality. All Law is suppose to promote Virtue-—that is the purpose of government-—to Rule by Law-—and Justice (which is the First Virtue)-—has to promote Virtue through Just Law or it is unjust.
Laws that prevent human beings from doing their primary Duty to civil society—to raise their own offspring-—are evil (unjust laws) according to Natural Law Theory—the basis of our Constitution and Rights.
The only reason we have a government-—is to protect those Natural Rights—and marriage along with private property is primary, so to have the best structure to raise our own progeny and pass on property rights and do our primary Duty in life—to take care of our own progeny.
Ha-ha, true enough.
...”1) Stay in school
2) Get married before you have kids
3) Get a job. Any job.
You will most likely not be poor. Deviate from any of these 3 points, and you are on the path to poverty”...
Your assessment is right on! I would think the marriage prospects of a high schooler who already has children would not be good. Those of us who have watched the “sexual revolution” from the time of free love at Woodstock, etc., have seen a government sponsored sexually active path to poverty for women and children. Women have had children out of wedlock to secure government checks for each additional child. These are consequences to the socialism which we now find ourselves in..How do you suppose the upcoming dictatorship will “redistribute” marriage?
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