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originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: Edumakated
You know I've been wondering about your sources for a while now, but I just realized you are posting information from the Heritage Foundation. The same group of cronies that funded bad science to try to discount the evidence that smoking causes cancer. I don't believe a word from that source, mate. You couldn't have found a more biased source if you tried.
originally posted by: Edumakated
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: Edumakated
You know I've been wondering about your sources for a while now, but I just realized you are posting information from the Heritage Foundation. The same group of cronies that funded bad science to try to discount the evidence that smoking causes cancer. I don't believe a word from that source, mate. You couldn't have found a more biased source if you tried.
Never fails. If you can't deconstruct the data or the logic, you attack the source. Please give us a list of source acceptable to progressives? A lot of that data comes from the CDC directly.
[1] See Robert Rector, “Marriage: America’s Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty,” Heritage Foundation Special Report No. 117, September 5, 2012, www.heritage.org...
[2] Ibid.
[3] Chris Coughlin and Samuel Vuchinich, “Family Experience in Preadolescence and the Development of Male Delinquency,” Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 58, No. 2 (May 1996), pp. 491–501.
[4] Deborah A. Dawson, “Family Structure and Children’s Health and Well-Being: Data from the 1988 National Health Interview Survey on Child Health,” Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 53, No. 3 (August 1991), pp. 573–584.
[5] Wendy D. Manning and Kathleen A. Lamb, “Adolescent Well-Being in Cohabiting, Married, and Single-Parent Families,” Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 65, No. 4 (November 2003), pp. 876–893. Data from Add Health study. See also Dawson, “Family Structure and Children’s Health and Well-Being.”
[6] Timothy Biblarz and Greg Gottainer, “Family Structure and Children’s Success: A Comparison of Widowed and Divorced Single-Mother Families,” Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 62 (May 2000), pp. 533–548.
[7] Cynthia C. Harper and Sara S. McLanahan, “Father Absence and Youth Incarceration,” Journal of Research on Adolescence, Vol. 14, No. 3 (September 2004), pp. 369–397. The data are from National Longitudinal Study of Youth, the 1979 cohort (NYLS79).
[8] Martha S. Hill, Wei-Jun J. Yeung, and Greg J. Duncan, “Childhood Family Structure and Young Adult Behaviors,” Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2001), pp. 271–299.
[9] The EITC for a married couple with two children provides a refundable benefit equaling 40 percent of the couple’s earnings for earnings up to $13,340 per year. As a couple’s earnings rise above $23,260, the EITC benefit is phased downward. The anti-marriage incentives in the EITC and welfare in general could be reduced by raising the income point at which the EITC for married couples begins to phase down.
Do you have a source that refutes that welfare policies encourage single parenting?
originally posted by: Aazadan
a reply to: Edumakated
What's the difference between a live in boyfriend and being married? Other than the tax breaks and legal privileges?
One reason for this increased interest in cohabitation over marriage may not be the fear of the union itself, so much as a concern for the possibility of its collapse. In other words, it may be the looming prospect of divorce that's driving more people to choose the question "Will you move in with me?" over "Will you marry me?"
The bottom line is that both sexes, and particularly people who are less financially stable, are more reluctant to get married than they were a few decades ago. There are very real hardships associated with divorce, and the current economic climate makes them scarier than they might be in easier times.