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A comment on Promoting Marriage Has Failed and Is Unnecessary to Cut Poverty (2015).

Re:Promoting Marriage Has Failed and Is Unnecessary to Cut P... by pjc50 on Thursday May 26, 2016 @09:46AM (#11777874)
The most striking line is "US married-parent child poverty is so high that it's higher than the child poverty rate in single-mother families in the low-poverty Nordics".
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Re:Promoting Marriage Has Failed and Is Unnecessary to Cut P... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday May 26, 2016 @12:53PM (#11779480)
The most striking thing to me wasn't a line, it was a graph. It showed that single-mother child poverty rates were five times married-parent child poverty rates.

So, yeah, marriage actually does seem to help with poverty, quite dramatically so. But the article didn't talk much about that graph, because it kind of ruins their thesis.

Note well: I am not claiming that pushing people to marry will protect them (or their children) against poverty. Correlation is not causation. But there's something connecting marriage and non-poverty, no matter how much the article tries to tap-dance around it.

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Re:Promoting Marriage Has Failed and Is Unnecessary to Cut P... by pjc50 on Thursday May 26, 2016 @02:28PM (#11780341)
It could equally well be that marriage is an unaffordable luxury.
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