US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles

Re:US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles by usaar333 on Monday December 24, 2012 @02:35AM (#4962196)

> To get a sense of how powerful the marriage effect is, not just for women but for men, too, look at the exit polls by marital status. Among non-married voters – people who are single and have never married, are living with a partner, or are divorced – Obama beat Romney 62-35. Among married voters Romney won the vote handily, 56-42.

I'd be interested in seeing these numbers adjusted for age, various SES indicators, etc.

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Re:US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles by clarkm on Monday December 24, 2012 @03:17AM (#4962268)

You can do all the crosstabs you want here: http://elections.reuters.com/#poll

The marriage gap is much bigger than the gender gap, age gap, and any socioeconomic gap. I think it falls right below the race gap in terms of size, and is probably on par with the religious/non-religious gap.

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Re:US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles by tomjen3 on Monday December 24, 2012 @04:19AM (#4962352)

Agreed. Young people and single mothers are both very unlikely to be married and already known to hugely favor Democrats.

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Re:US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles by mtoddh on Monday December 24, 2012 @06:40AM (#4962568)

Interesting, my guess is this is the demographic the Obama campaign was courting with the Life of Julia [1] slide-show a while back-

http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia/

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Re:US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles by dnu on Monday December 24, 2012 @06:52AM (#4962597)

But if everybody lives like Julia, who the hell will do the hard work anymore?

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Re:US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles by throw_away on Monday December 24, 2012 @11:06AM (#4963192)

Are you saying that web design and starting your own small business (as did Julia in the ad) isn't hard work?

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Re:US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles by boboblong on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @08:10AM (#4965912)

I think his comment was more along the lines of, "Who will dig the ditches?" I'm sure HN's response is, "Robots, if all goes as planned."

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