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Two Classes, Divided by ‘I Do’
New York Times ^ | July 14, 2012 | JASON DePARLE

Posted on 06/07/2018 2:45:47 PM PDT by grundle

Faulkner is married and living on two paychecks, while Ms. Schairer is raising her children by herself. That gives the Faulkner family a profound advantage in income and nurturing time, and makes their children statistically more likely to finish college, find good jobs and form stable marriages.

Ms. Faulkner goes home to a trim subdivision and weekends crowded with children’s events. Ms. Schairer’s rent consumes more than half her income, and she scrapes by on food stamps.

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KEYWORDS: incomeinequality; marriage; poverty
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I remember “the chat” with my son on the porch when he was 14. It was:

There is only one way to sequence your life:

1. Education
2. Job/career
3. Marriage
4. Home
5. Children
6. Stay married

It must be done in that sequence. Put any of them out of order, particularly #5, and you fall out of the middle class and are off the path to success.

So far at age 28, he’s accomplished 1-4 and is doing quite well. His younger brother is on #2, without current prospects for #3, but he’s a good guy and enjoying life as a singe Chemical Engineer. For now. And no, he does not live in our house.


21 posted on 06/07/2018 3:16:00 PM PDT by henkster (Monsters from the Id.)
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To: grundle

Bump


22 posted on 06/07/2018 3:16:47 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: grundle

Make Americans Dependent! did I get that right??


23 posted on 06/07/2018 3:18:10 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Socon-Econ

Schairer got faulked up and now wants Faulkner to share.


24 posted on 06/07/2018 3:19:33 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: grundle

in today’s world there is No reason to become pregnant. between Condoms, the Pill, and IUDs you can make yourself almost 100% safe, (have an IUD and insists on condoms). I have known several girls who “accidentally” got pregnant. It never works out for the girl, If you’re going to play around, play safe. And Guys, it can destroy you to.


25 posted on 06/07/2018 3:21:27 PM PDT by 20yearvet (they yell for more tests as long as its your money)
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To: webheart
According to the Obama administration, you don't need a husband when you have Big Government. Remember "Julia?"
26 posted on 06/07/2018 3:27:46 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: 20yearvet
girls who “accidentally” got pregnant

Ummm....I think they knew how this works.

27 posted on 06/07/2018 3:27:58 PM PDT by henkster (Monsters from the Id.)
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To: grundle

This article was written in 2012, a few months before the election. Of course the takeaway from this should be “Don’t be an ass. Get married to a good partner before you have children”. But what they try push on the reader is “Hey, married people have it better and that’s not fair so everybody else should clean up the messes of people who make bad choices”.

Snowflakes.


28 posted on 06/07/2018 3:28:02 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
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To: Gay State Conservative

> “Has the NY Slimes come down on the side of responsible “Ward & June Cleaver” lifestyles?”

No. They want to outlaw “Ward & June Cleaver lifestyles”, to make things “fair”.


29 posted on 06/07/2018 3:31:13 PM PDT by jim_trent
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To: Red Badger
They are not divided by ‘I Do’, they are divided by ‘I DID’..................

And then kept on doing and doing and doing........ Moved another man into the house, too. That's not optimism, it's stupidity, the kind of stupidity that it takes to name a kid Steavon.


30 posted on 06/07/2018 3:33:31 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: grundle
per article "Her first thought when she got pregnant was “My mother’s going to kill me.” Abortion crossed her mind, but her boyfriend, an African-American student from Arkansas … "

Some people make bad choices. Number one of obviously many bad choices was getting pregnant out of wedlock.

Going to college to in order to play basketball is another bad choice.

And then of course … too many bad choices to enumerate.
 

31 posted on 06/07/2018 3:34:20 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: Red Badger

They are not divided by ‘I Do’, they are divided by ‘I DID’..................WHAT???


32 posted on 06/07/2018 3:36:51 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Horse heads work!)
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To: Red Badger
Well, if you read far enough, you read that she got PG during her first year in college and it didn't work out.

As my Daddy put it, many if not most young men are unwilling to buy a cow if they get their milk for free.

33 posted on 06/07/2018 3:42:25 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: grundle

Life is not fair.

Also people live with the choices they make and their consequences.

THIS IS LIFE YOU SNOWFLAKE PEOPLE.


34 posted on 06/07/2018 4:11:30 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Pollster1
It’s a shame there was nothing Ms. Schairer could have done to avoid her situation.

Well, she could have given up her baby for adoption, then college, marriage, and children in that order.

35 posted on 06/07/2018 4:11:54 PM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: grundle

Nuclear families - The REAL White Privilege.


36 posted on 06/07/2018 4:12:02 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Ironically, married parents who stay married correlates far more strongly than race, in predicting the academic and economic success of a child. Of course, the black bastardy rate is absurdly high.


37 posted on 06/07/2018 4:25:28 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: grundle

Thank you, Mr. Faulkner


38 posted on 06/07/2018 4:27:00 PM PDT by exinnj
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To: 20yearvet

>>>in today’s world there is No reason to become pregnant. between Condoms, the Pill, and IUDs you can make yourself almost 100% safe, (have an IUD and insists on condoms).<<<

EXACTLY what I’ve been saying for years.


39 posted on 06/07/2018 4:30:06 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: henkster

There is only one way to sequence your life:

1. Education
2. Job/career
3. Marriage
4. Home
5. Children
6. Stay married
______

Too bad colleges don’t encourage and/or teach that kind of “old fashioned” wisdom. Instead they have co-ed dorms, co-ed bathrooms, and sex workshops. Then parents wonder what went wrong.


40 posted on 06/07/2018 4:36:06 PM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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