This article ducks and spins and dances around all sorts of family statistics and opinions from a secular point of reference, but this one paragraph stuck out to me: Scholars on the left tend to blame poverty for family breakdown. Ms Sawhill (researcher featured in the article) finds this too glib. Families were much poorer in the 1950s, but they stuck together. Unskilled men’s wages have fallen in recent decades, but not by much. This “cannot explain more than a small fraction” of the change at the bottom. On the contrary, the nuclear family is an effective way out of poverty. A child born in the bottom fifth (of wage-earnings) has an 83% chance of escaping it if his parents remain married, compared with 50% if they were never wed. Heres the full article:
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 22:48:21 +0000
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