So it is your impression that declining marital rates are driven by women?

This, however, doesn’t necessarily mean young women aren’t getting pregnant; they’re just less likely to marry the blue-collar fathers when they do. More numbers: Between 1980 and 2013, the share of children born to unmarried mothers more than doub…

Blue-Collar Marriages Are Disappearing as Quickly as Blue-Collar Jobs

C. Brian Smith

Leslie Loftis

1 min readMar 16, 2017

So it is your impression that declining marital rates are driven by women? (Genuine question. Not a trap. I’m currently trying to place an article on this,)

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