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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Sorry, the jury is out there isn't any question that the decline of marriage and the increase of out-of-wedlock births a strongly correlated to economic decline and poverty.
How America's Marriage Crisis Makes Income Inequality So Much Worse (the Atlantic)
The rich and educated are more likely to marry, to marry each other, and to produce rich and educated children. But this virtual cycle turns vicious for the poor. |
Any article that uses the 1950s as some sort of baseline for two parent family rates (or much of anything) is flawed. The postwar '50s era was the outlier, not the baseline.
In Canada at least, in the '20s and '30s about 12% of families were lone-parent families and 3% of all children lived in a household where neither of their parents were present. In the 2011 census, 16.3% of all families were headed by a single parent and only 0.5% of children lived without either of their parents in the household. So not a massive difference from today if you're looking at what portion of children grow up in two parent households.
And like I mentioned above, for all the harmony of the first decade or two after the second world war, the children who were brought up in that era ended up being the most criminal generation of the last century. The murder rate in the United States for instance is less than half of what it was at its peak in the '70s.