Posted on 07/06/2017 10:31:48 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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The success sequence, previously suggested in research by, among others, Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution, is this: First get at least a high school diploma, then get a job, then get married, and only then have children. Wang and Wilcox, focusing on millennials ages 28 to 34, the oldest members of the nation’s largest generation, have found that only 3 percent who follow this sequence are poor.
A comparably stunning 55 percent of this age cohort has had children before marriage. Only 25 percent of the youngest baby boomers (those born between 1957 and 1964) did that. Eighty-six percent of the Wang-Wilcox millennials who put “marriage before the baby carriage” have family incomes in the middle or top third of incomes. Forty-seven percent who did not follow the sequence are in the bottom third.
One problem today, Wilcox says, is the “soulmate model of marriage,” a self-centered approach that regards marriage primarily as an opportunity for personal growth and fulfillment rather than as a way to form a family. Another problem is that some of the intelligentsia see the success sequence as middle-class norms to be disparaged for being middle-class norms. And as AEI social scientist Charles Murray says, too many of the successful classes, who followed the success sequence, do not preach what they practice, preferring “ecumenical niceness” to being judgmental.
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But he nails it.
Want to be successful in America?
Get an education. Get married. Have kids. Stay married.
He’s absolutely right.
Click and read some of the 1.1K comments at the link. No surprise that many liberals are angry and incensed at these facts.
They still remain adamant that the gubmint is the only answer to poverty. Yeah. And how’s that $15 minimum wage requirement working out, hmmm?
It’s even worse than Will states. Many of the Millennials aren’t even getting to the “move out of mom’s basement and get a job” phase!
I skipped the college education/indoctrination, skipped the massive student loan debt all my old friends are now facing, got married at 18 to a real man (who owns a business and can support all of us) and now have seven children.
Not everyone wants to play the liberal game of getting an education and then supporting their banksters with interest payments while paying taxes to support the illegal aliens who all vote Democrat.
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Staying home is a good decision. Mrs WBill did the same thing - the blowback she got from friends, co-workers (she had a small parttime job for spending $$$), family, even her own mother was ridiculous. Fortunately, she had the backbone to tell them all to "Go Fish", stayed home with WBill Jr, and they're both happier. She's smart. I surely married up.
Now that the boy is getting older, she's thinking about going back to work. That'll be fine, whatever she'd like. She realized that she had a lifetime to work, but the kid is only a kid for a little bit. Like I said...smart.
That first one is dependent upon what kind of education. How to avoid the liberal indoctrination? And that merely throws a sop to the anti-industrial left that wants to keep the USA down economically and Red China up.
And Will is an atheist, so why would he actually support traditional family if he doesn’t believe in it? especially since religion dictates that it was established by God? That’s just pandering, to try to claw back the conservatives he alienated with his true beliefs.
My grandfather on my mother’s side supported ten kids without taking a second job and without my grandmother going to work. All depends on how the society works; forcing a second job on a breadwinner in direct proportion to children produced is anti-family on the part of the government.
You’re not kidding about the blowback! I’ve lost all of my old friends. We still keep in touch but they’re not my friends anymore if that makes sense. They all went off to college and now some of them are getting jobs and whining about rent and school loans and they’re living with someone and pretending it’s the same as being married.
I’ll probably be a grandmother by the time they get around to having kids in their forties.
Silly people. They’re missing out on life.
I heard this first from Dr. Walter E. Williams, as a guest host for Rush. Many moons ago...
>>One problem today, Wilcox says, is the “soulmate model of marriage,” a self-centered approach that regards marriage primarily as an opportunity for personal growth and fulfillment rather than as a way to form a family. <<
The “soulmate” model is the only one I ever heard of (I am nearing 60). The idea that you get married with the specific and primary purpose of creating a family went out a hundred years ago.
That doesn’t undermine the rest of the model.
I have been preaching this very lesson to my two boys since they were in elementary school. I just sent them both the link to this article.
Foolproof formula to a good life.
Not reading Will’s swill, but he uses 1000 words when he could say the same thing with 100, no doubt.
They're trying desperately to fill the enormous hole that's in their lives with bigger and flashier baubles. Meanwhile, I go home from work and toss the football with the kid, sometimes Mrs WBill watches, sometimes she plays too. It's a good life and we're blissfully happy. Her homemade Key Lime Pie is for dessert tonite, and I'm looking forward to it. :-)
Anyhoo - she keeps in touch with her friends. They get together once or twice a year, maybe, if that. Meanwhile, she's reached out to new friends in our church, and locally. Better people, IMO, and I'm not sorry to see less and less of the old ones. Don't know the politics of the new folks, don't particularly care. They value the same things we do - family, education, work, community - and that's what matters to me.
Millennials: The worst generation. The voting block of Socialist POS Bernie Sanders. That says it all.
If he had the guts to do it, he would have addressed this to the blacks in the country who can really use this sequence. What’s the latest tally - 70% of black children are born out of wedlock?
Amazing that this is just what my parents, teachers, and the church said all along!
Many among the younger generation care more about feelings or “not judging” than about outcomes. They “reason” that their friend Taylor who had a baby without being married isn’t a bad person, and therefore, the fact this has largely wrecked her lifetime economic prospects is Universally Unfair.
Having reached this conclusion, they repeat the line of thought, with minor variations in phrasing, but never go any further.
“Don’t do stupid stuff!” was a major feature of my mother’s instruction.
Very true. And this is why home schooling and private schooling for our children is so vital. And if college is the right choice, make sure it's a good choice.
And Will is an atheist, so why would he actually support traditional family if he doesn’t believe in it? especially since religion dictates that it was established by God? That’s just pandering, to try to claw back the conservatives he alienated with his true beliefs.
Even an atheist has to realize the importance of traditional marriages in the USA. Mom, Dad and the 2.2 kids will benefit a society. The family adds economic value to any country.
Queer marriages, broken homes, the Great Society LBJ gave us? These all lead to the Welfare State and greater dependency on the government.
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