Promoting Marriage Has Failed and Is Unnecessary to Cut Poverty (2015) • Hacker News Board

Re: Promoting Marriage Has Failed and Is Unnecessary to Cut Poverty (2015)

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Post by sickbeard » Thu, May 26, 2016, 6:05 PM UTC

antisthenes wrote: post #27

dajohnson89 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you please elaborate? Are you referring to alimony, child support, etc?

I'm sure that's what he's referring too. Also the massive increase in hypergamy thanks to the commodification of dating.

You're not exempt from alimony or child support because you weren't married.

Re: Promoting Marriage Has Failed and Is Unnecessary to Cut Poverty (2015)

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Post by pjc50 » Thu, May 26, 2016, 6:28 PM UTC

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #37

pjc50 wrote: post #13

The most striking line is "US married-parent child poverty is so high that it's higher than the child poverty rate in single-mother families in the low-poverty Nordics".

The most striking thing to me wasn't a line, it was a graph. It showed that single-mother child poverty rates were five times married-parent child poverty rates. So, yeah, marriage actually does seem to help with poverty, quite dramatically so. But the article didn't talk much about that graph, because it kind of ruins their thesis. Note well: I am not claiming that pushing people to marry will protect them (or their…

It could equally well be that marriage is an unaffordable luxury.

Re: Promoting Marriage Has Failed and Is Unnecessary to Cut Poverty (2015)

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Post by ZeroGravitas » Thu, May 26, 2016, 8:34 PM UTC

Lawtonfogle wrote: post #10

Promoting marriage? All I've see is a massive increase in the risk of marrying, especially as a man.

Can you explain this? Most of the other responses seem to indicate a transfer of risk from the wife to the husband (e.g who pays for the children after a divorce) but you specify a massive increase in risk that applies to both parties. So what are you referring to?