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So a woman with a college degree who earns $30,000 per year or more ("Career Woman") is more likely to divorce you, cheat on you, or express displeasure at the

So a woman with a college degree who earns $30,000 per year or more ("Career Woman") is more likely to divorce you, cheat on you, or express displeasure at the thought of having children. Wow. Compelling research. But isn't $30,000 a bit low to lump into the "Career Woman" category? Do you think these studies controlled for the (obvious?) fact that women below this already-low bar are either 1) trophy wives happy to play their part or 2) going to get punched right in the mouth for any sort of dissent? I grew up around both types and neither got divorced. Most miserable people I knew. In other news: Stressed people often find it difficult to get along with others, while people at the spa do not.

tptacek 16y ago
There it is. Also: this "research" is irrelevant; the one-income, stay-at-home parent model is probably dead forever. Throughout much of the middle class, a single income simply isn't viable. Which, from a social science perspective, makes you wonder about any statistics they may home come up with: did they control for all the other socio/econo/cultural stuff that's conflated with this? A single income is more likely to be viable in rural areas, where competition, social mores, and lack of mobility disadvantage divorce inherently.