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DFW

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5. Weird, it didn't hurt me any

Reply to Redfairen (Original post)

Sat Mar 16, 2013, 03:51 AM

Mar 2013

I say "me" instead of "us" because my wife is not a middle-class American. She is not American at all. I met my wife to be when we were both 22. We never found the time to get married, and if my brother hadn't invited us to our own wedding (long story), we probably still wouldn't be married. As it is, we only got married at age 30, 8 years after we met, and became parents for the first time a year after that. Mythology or not, we spent our 20s establishing careers and relationships (mostly our own) before deciding to settle down and have children. The "settle down" part is still open to some serious debate.

Even so, we both have college degrees, and so do both of our children. So much for statistics.

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Study: Delaying marriage hurts middle-class Americans most [View all] Redfairen Mar 2013 OP

If Republicans really wanted to encourage strong families RainDog Mar 2013 #1

And Institute a MASSIVE Jobs Program ala WPA Demeter Mar 2013 #17

Including, as did the New Deal, arts programs RainDog Mar 2013 #20

A common Republican talking point is that people wouldn't be so poor if they were married Lydia Leftcoast Mar 2013 #2

There's a grain of truth to it... Xithras Mar 2013 #4

The Republican talking point has it backwards Lydia Leftcoast Mar 2013 #14

Taking things out of order is always a problem. mbperrin Mar 2013 #3

My parents put off children to the very fringes of biological potential, Sen. Walter Sobchak Mar 2013 #6

This also means very few children would have any concept whatsoever DebJ Mar 2013 #13

Nearly no children have contact with their grandparents now, what with 20% of the US population mbperrin Mar 2013 #15

My sister in law and her husband adopted a child DebJ Mar 2013 #24

Stay married a decade? Demeter Mar 2013 #18

My point. If they turn into a psycho or drunk or whatever, divorce them and get rid of them. mbperrin Mar 2013 #21

Weird, it didn't hurt me any DFW Mar 2013 #5

Study sort of flat-out ignores the marraige failure rate, too. Ikonoklast Mar 2013 #7

The study doesn't ignore it, just the WP write-up muriel_volestrangler Mar 2013 #9

The WP seems to be saying the typical middle class man is a Walmart checkout guy muriel_volestrangler Mar 2013 #8

The thinly veiled message here: No college degree? You're never going to ever earn a livable wage. PSPS Mar 2013 #10

I was wondering why they were counting high school grads as middle class. JVS Mar 2013 #23

I don't see the connection. MindPilot Mar 2013 #11

Idon't see that. Igel Mar 2013 #12

Stupid headline Orangepeel Mar 2013 #16

What is the Priority? Demeter Mar 2013 #19

Now THAT is a fine frame of a question! mbperrin Mar 2013 #22

Some interesting comments to the Article in WAPO: elleng Mar 2013 #25