Elitist Marriage
Mar. 5th, 2007 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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.
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Date: 2007-03-05 06:11 pm (UTC)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.