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Originally Posted by peter12
Isn't marriage just part of the nuclear family? The life-long contract to raise a family as a mutually-supporting unit?
Except the trends have also increased during periods of full employment - like 1994 to 2004.
Economics and technology probably have something to do with it. That is Charles Murray's argument.
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I don't see marriage as having an impact on the modern nuclear family. Marriage is a quaint structure that is more political hot point than a cultural necessity to the success of a family unit these days. Since almost 51% of marriages end in divorce, and cohabitation has become a norm for family formation, the ideal of marriage is not what it once was.
Let's not go down the Murray rabbit hole again. That argument never goes anywhere positive.