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Re:The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low by fuzzer37 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:37AM (#25059834)
> working-class and poor Americans face more family instability and higher levels of singleness

"singleness" is an interesting term here. Are the authors implying that being single is inherently a bad thing? It seems as though they're using it to have a negative connotation.

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Re:The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low by mensetmanusman on Thursday November 12, 2020 @07:34AM (#25069130)
Not necessarily from this context. It could be read as ‘if singleness were a natural decision and evenly distributed across demographic groups, then finding groups where there were higher levels of singleness would point to some type of involuntary singleness.’

The fact that involuntary singleness correlates with higher family instability is not a surprise.

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Re:The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low by eeZah7Ux on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:43AM (#25059895)
Spot on. Unsurprisingly, the author is ignoring the number of lifelong unmarried couples.
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