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Unemployment is high because those on the losing end of today's economy refuse to work, non-marital births occur because of a lack of emphasis on marriage, and the upper class can assist only by expressing its disapproval and "preaching what it practices" -- presumably investments in Ivy League education, parent-subsidized internships and marriage between two investment bankers at 32.
June Carbone: The Class Warrior of the 1% June Carbone 2012
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Starting in 1990, the lines diverged, with the divorce rates of college graduates falling back to the level of the mid-sixties before no-fault divorce while the divorce and non-marital birth rates of everyone else continued to rise.
June Carbone: The Class Warrior of the 1% June Carbone 2012
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The changes of the last quarter century indicate that marriage is increasingly becoming a marker of class -- the delayed marriages of the middle class produce steadily lower divorce rates, very few non-marital births, and substantial resources to invest in a falling number of children.
June Carbone: Changing Marriage Patterns Reflect Economics and Class June Carbone 2011
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He burst onto the national scene in the eighties, announcing that he knew why the African-American non-marital birth rate had risen so dramatically: the government made them do it.
June Carbone: The Class Warrior of the 1% June Carbone 2012
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The changes of the last quarter century indicate that marriage is increasingly becoming a marker of class -- the delayed marriages of the middle class produce steadily lower divorce rates, very few non-marital births, and substantial resources to invest in a falling number of children.
June Carbone: Changing Marriage Patterns Reflect Economics and Class June Carbone 2011
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Fifth, a delay in marriage and a decrease in divorce might be a good thing, but only if it also produces a drop in non-marital births.
June Carbone: Changing Marriage Patterns Reflect Economics and Class June Carbone 2011
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Kelly Musick, an associate professor at Cornell University, is conducting research on cohabitation and childbearing among non-marital families.
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"That's going to result in a lot of non-marital births."
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Fifth, a delay in marriage and a decrease in divorce might be a good thing, but only if it also produces a drop in non-marital births.
June Carbone: Changing Marriage Patterns Reflect Economics and Class June Carbone 2011
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What it is meant to communicate is the notion that the child was the product of an extra -- or non-marital reproductive sex act -- a moment of passion, rather than, well what?
Katherine Franke: Enough Already With "Love Child," "Illegitimate," and "Out-of-Wedlock" Katherine Franke 2011
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