What they picked up on is the difference between the red and the blue states. What accounts for all these differences? It's a mix of religion and ethnicity and class and so on.
They advance further in their job, they save more money, and maybe invest more wisely.
Single parenthood and poverty are about as closely related as you can get.
Fifty percent of them will break up. If you were to add the dimension of working together, you'd probably see an increase.
Divorce has become more commonplace in the popular culture - among celebrities and even public figures. And we tend to take our cues from news, movies, books and magazines. The whole feeling about divorce has shifted from one of abhorrence to acceptable.
It delays marriage. Men marry too late from the point of view of women, especially educated men. It leaves more women single, or marrying beyond the age of childbirth.
The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.
Later marriage is very strongly associated with higher levels of education. That's why people in the Northeast have such a late age of marriage.
