Hurrah! for Marriage!

Hurrah! for Marriage!
In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Friday, Aug. 17, 2012

The New York Times Reports Marriage Leads to Economic Prosperity: (Once in while we can get an honest report from them.) by Ben Johnson, LifeSiteNews.com N.Y. July 19, 2012

The definition of marriage has long been considered a religious or legal argument. However, a growing number of economists, journalists and social researchers are concluding that getting and staying married is a key to economic prosperity and domestic tranquility.

This reality became the subject of a New York Times article “Two Classes Divided by I Do” which spanned nearly 3,900 words.

Citing a host of secular, liberal professors, the article came to the same conclusion as longtime apologists for traditional marriage: it’s only good for the soul but also one’s bank account.

Studies say skyrocketing rates of single parenthood account for some of the widening income gap between well-to-do and those who are struggling. Experts estimate new parenting trends account for anywhere from 10 percent (Harvard sociology professor Bruce Western) to 40% (Robert Lerman of the Urban Institute) of the differential.

Family marriage and childbirth patterns put families on “different trajectories” according to Mindy Scott a demographer with the research center Child Trends. Andrew Cherlin, a sociologist based at John Hopkins University, said, “It is privileged Americans who are marrying, and marrying helps them stay privileged.”

One reason is that married men who must provide for their family have greater incentive to be conscientious about their vocation.

Married me “enjoy an income premium of about 19 percent in the U.S. compared to their similarly credentialed peers,” said Dr. W. Bradford Wilcox director of Nat. Marriage Project and professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. They “work about 160 hours more than their similarly credentialed peers after they transition in to marriage that first year of married life.”

“Men who get married and stay married to be better workers,” … “They work harder; they work longer hours; they work more strategically and as a consequence, they tend to earn more money.”

He added that marriage benefits both partners economically. “Women who get and stay married by the end of their lives have a lot more in the way of assets - whether it’s a home or some kind of retirement account.”

Parents share other economic incentives, including differentiation of labor, and they “ are able to pool their income and benefit from economies of scale, in part,” said Wilcox.

Some marriage supporters believe the free market rests upon the foundation of a stable home.

“The family is absolutely necessary for the market to function,” said Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse of R… Institute, a think tank dedicated to understanding and defending the traditional family in all its aspects.

However, the article noted this foundation is crumbling under the weight of discarded social obligations. Some 41 percent of U.S. births take place out-of-wedlock. However, these are not evenly distributed: 60 percent of women with high school education or less have illegitimate births…

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