Over Half of U.S. Young Adults Now Live with Their Parents
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Over Half of U.S. Young Adults Now Live with Their Parents
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#2The fact that we have deincentivized marriage is a huge issue. Married couples are usually wealthier but everything that used to push people to do that has been roadblocked by govt.
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#3The fact that we have deincentivized marriage is a huge issue. Married couples are usually wealthier but everything that used to push people to do that has been roadblocked by govt.
Feel like you are putting the cart before the horse here. It's not like the government gives you a house and 40 acres for getting married.
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#4The fact that we have deincentivized marriage is a huge issue. Married couples are usually wealthier but everything that used to push people to do that has been roadblocked by govt.
I'm confused, in what way has the government deincentivized/roadblocked marriage?
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#5The fact that we have deincentivized marriage is a huge issue. Married couples are usually wealthier but everything that used to push people to do that has been roadblocked by govt.
I worked with a bunch of "millennials" at my previous job (the entire social media team). This is anecdotal, but, yeah, a lot of them were worried about having a stable career first before they could commit to marriage.
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#6The fact that we have deincentivized marriage is a huge issue. Married couples are usually wealthier but everything that used to push people to do that has been roadblocked by govt.
I'm confused, in what way has the government deincentivized/roadblocked marriage?
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#7The fact that we have deincentivized marriage is a huge issue. Married couples are usually wealthier but everything that used to push people to do that has been roadblocked by govt.
I think it would be helpful and you wouldn't be getting negative reactions if you actually posted some examples. I can't think of a single thing government has done to "roadblock marriage".
Under the Obama administration marriage benefits were extended to same-sex couples EXPANDING the government's push for more people to be married.
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#8The fact that we have deincentivized marriage is a huge issue. Married couples are usually wealthier but everything that used to push people to do that has been roadblocked by govt.
Feel like you are putting the cart before the horse here. It's not like the government gives you a house and 40 acres for getting married.
Two people working together can generate more wealth than one person working alone. It's not a controversial concept.
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#9The fact that we have deincentivized marriage is a huge issue. Married couples are usually wealthier but everything that used to push people to do that has been roadblocked by govt.
I'm confused, in what way has the government deincentivized/roadblocked marriage?
To be clear, I don't have a strong opinion about this, and I'm not making a claim that marriage is a good or a bad thing, I'm just answering your question.
The usual argument that says that the government disincentivized marriage is through social safety nets like welfare, particularly ones that pay more for single parents without a spouse in the house, as well as mechanisms like child support payments.
The usual argument that says society has disincentivized marriage is basically through access to sex. There used to be a culture of enforced monogamy, where there was enormous social pressure to be married before having sex, and especially before living with one another. Now, that stigma is largely gone, so the incentive to get married has diminished substantially.
Again, not making a value judgement, just answering the question.
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#10The fact that we have deincentivized marriage is a huge issue. Married couples are usually wealthier but everything that used to push people to do that has been roadblocked by govt.
I also have no idea what you're talking about.
But, generally, I'm not sure that incentivizing people to legally bond themselves to another is necessarily an unquestionably positive thing.