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WaPo article on decline in marriage
Interesting article in this morning's Post Online. I think reg'n is required:
Numbers Drop for the Married With Children
Institution Becoming The Choice of the Educated, Affluent
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 4, 2007; Page A03
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Punctuating a fundamental change in American family life, married couples with children now occupy fewer than one in every four households -- a share that has been slashed in half since 1960 and is the lowest ever recorded by the census.
As marriage with children becomes an exception rather than the norm, social scientists say it is also becoming the self-selected province of the college-educated and the affluent. The working class and the poor, meanwhile, increasingly steer away from marriage, while living together and bearing children out of wedlock.
This was interesting:
"We seem to be reverting to a much older pattern, when elites marry and a great many others live together and have kids," said Peter Francese, demographic trends analyst for Ogilvy & Mather, an advertising firm.
So, is it like the Middle Ages all over again, or what?
Numbers Drop for the Married With Children
Institution Becoming The Choice of the Educated, Affluent
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 4, 2007; Page A03
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Punctuating a fundamental change in American family life, married couples with children now occupy fewer than one in every four households -- a share that has been slashed in half since 1960 and is the lowest ever recorded by the census.
As marriage with children becomes an exception rather than the norm, social scientists say it is also becoming the self-selected province of the college-educated and the affluent. The working class and the poor, meanwhile, increasingly steer away from marriage, while living together and bearing children out of wedlock.
This was interesting:
"We seem to be reverting to a much older pattern, when elites marry and a great many others live together and have kids," said Peter Francese, demographic trends analyst for Ogilvy & Mather, an advertising firm.
So, is it like the Middle Ages all over again, or what?
