Elitist Marriage

[lillibet]

So, apparently another elitist upper-middle-class thing that we do is get married, according to this Washington Post article.

This stand-out statistic caught my eye:

...about a third of first births among white women coming before marriage, compared with three-quarters among black women.

Comments

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

Marriage can have devastating effects on state aid if you're poor and have children, so I really doubt that people are always poor *because* they're not married. That's sort of like the statistic about how people who don't get divorced have better relationships and their children feel better about their home stability. What were we measuring here, exactly?