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

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

Oh, see now, that's interesting. I was interpreting the statistics as "born to unwed mothers" rather than "born to mothers who subsequently get married".

WRT to the causation questions, yes, I had those, too. There were a number of places in the article where I wanted citations and more rigorous grammar.

[dpolicar]

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Mm. Yes, I was reading "coming before marriage" in a more literal sense, though now that you say it, your reading is far more likely given how studies like this usually work.