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If you take "people with college degrees" as elites, you can see two things documented in surveys: a) way less people with college degrees think that marriage i
by est31 4y ago
If you take "people with college degrees" as elites, you can see two things documented in surveys: a) way less people with college degrees think that marriage is important if a couple has children together than people without college degrees (25% vs 31% in 2020). This holds also when you ask them whether marriage is important for life partners (31% vs 42% in 2020). All this while b) people with college degrees have higher ratios of marriages than people without.
a) https://news.gallup.com/poll/316223/fewer-say-important-parents-married.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/316223/fewer-say-important-pare...
b) https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/14/as-u-s-marriage-rate-hovers-at-50-education-gap-in-marital-status-widens/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/14/as-u-s-marr...
- ryandrake 4y agoMore than half of working age adults have college degrees. I wouldn’t call that a satisfying definition of “elite”. When I think of the elite I’m thinking heads of state, CEOs, and leaders of the arts and sciences. Not a rando marketing manager with an English degree.
- nathan_compton 4y agoRight, but this difference in opinion hardly constitutes an active denigration of marriage. And this survey result actually undermines the idea that marriage decline is _because of_ elite opinion that marriage isn't important: the classes with the highest rates of divorce and unmarried parenting actually believe marriage is _more important_ than those with the lowest. Gee, I wonder if there is a material, economic, explanation for the stability of various family structures in different classes?