Post by mesquite on Jan 4, 2015 0:31:19 GMT -5
Marriage in the United States remains strong among the college educated, in the poor and working classes marriage rates have fallen precipitously, and divorce rates are high. Single parenthood is becoming the norm, as are serial relationships and fragile, complex families of stepsiblings and half-siblings. Half of all births to young women are now outside marriage, and 60 percent are unplanned.
With the rapid and unprecedented rise in births to single mothers, one-third of American children are living in single-parent families, where child poverty rates are four times as high as in two-parent families.
Isabel V. Sawhill has long been a proponent of marriage. She defended Vice President Dan Quayle’s 1992 attack on the TV character and unwed mother Murphy Brown. She helped shape sweeping welfare reform intended to curb single parenting. Sawhill also served as an Associate Director in the Office of Management and Budget during the first term of the Clinton Administration.
Sawhill has written a book, Generation Unbound. She says marriage may be dead. Sawhill thinks Scandinavian-style long-term cohabiting may be next.
www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-longtime-proponent-of-marriage-wants-to-reassess-the-institutions-future/2015/01/03/c0960e4a-8ada-11e4-8ff4-fb93129c9c8b_story.html?hpid=z5
As far as Cock Robin goes, Sparrow has confessed.
But who killed Marriage? More importantly, who had a motive and what was it?
With the rapid and unprecedented rise in births to single mothers, one-third of American children are living in single-parent families, where child poverty rates are four times as high as in two-parent families.
Isabel V. Sawhill has long been a proponent of marriage. She defended Vice President Dan Quayle’s 1992 attack on the TV character and unwed mother Murphy Brown. She helped shape sweeping welfare reform intended to curb single parenting. Sawhill also served as an Associate Director in the Office of Management and Budget during the first term of the Clinton Administration.
Sawhill has written a book, Generation Unbound. She says marriage may be dead. Sawhill thinks Scandinavian-style long-term cohabiting may be next.
www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-longtime-proponent-of-marriage-wants-to-reassess-the-institutions-future/2015/01/03/c0960e4a-8ada-11e4-8ff4-fb93129c9c8b_story.html?hpid=z5
As far as Cock Robin goes, Sparrow has confessed.
But who killed Marriage? More importantly, who had a motive and what was it?