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Topic subjectMarriage could also be a means for poorer people to raise educated
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13199092, Marriage could also be a means for poorer people to raise educated
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Mon Oct-02-17 03:09 PM
, middle class kids. Two incomes is better than one. Yeah I wouldn't marry no broke negro either.


>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/upshot/how-did-marriage-become-a-mark-of-privilege.html?smid=tw-share
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>Women, meanwhile, have learned from watching a generation of
>divorce that they need to be able to support themselves. And
>many working-class women aren’t interested in taking
>responsibility for a man without a job.
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>“They say, ‘If he’s not offering money or assets, why
>make it legal?’ ” said June Carbone, a law professor at
>the University of Minnesota and the author with Naomi Cahn of
>“Marriage Markets: How Inequality Is Remaking the American
>Family.”
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>Marriage is a dying institution unless two people really
>really want that legal binding agreement.
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