Category Archives: Families structures, divorce, etc

Poor people value marriage as much as the middle class and rich, study shows

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Ampersand

The title of this post comes from the UCLA press release: Poor people hold more traditional values toward marriage and divorce than people with moderate and higher incomes, UCLA psychologists report in the current issue of the Journal of Marriage … Continue reading →

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“As If Married”

Posted on February 14, 2012 by fannie

In the 9th Circuit’s recent Prop 8 opinion, the Court noted: “… ‘marriage’ is the name that society gives to the relationship that matters most between two adults. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but to … Continue reading →

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Did No-Fault Divorce Create A “Divorce Culture”?

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Ampersand

[A crosspost from Family Scholars Blog.] Douglas Allen, in an interview Karen linked to, said: In the 1960s debate [over no-fault divorce], no one thought the divorce rate would change, but it changed enormously and led to a divorce culture. … Continue reading →

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Increased Incarceration And The Decline In Marriage Rates

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Ampersand

From economist Marina Adshade’s “Dollars And Sex” blog: New research published in The Review of Economics and Statistics shows that growing incarceration has contributed to declining marriage rates. In fact, this paper finds that about 13% of the decline in … Continue reading →

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Rape Victims Ordered To Pay Child Support

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Ampersand

So a man gets raped by a woman woman rapes a man; the woman gets pregnant and raises the child. Should the father be forced to pay child support? Danny says no; Clarissa says yes. (The question was brought up … Continue reading →

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To Know What Social Science Says About Gay Parenting, Look At Studies Of Gay Parenting.

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Ampersand

Sherif Girgis’ rebuttal to Richard Chappell’s withering critique of “What Is Marriage?” covers more than I can respond to in a blog post. But I did want to look at Girgis’ discussion of social science and same-sex parenting. because the … Continue reading →

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Wanna Support Marriage? End The Drug War. Fight Unemployment.

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Ampersand

[Crossposted on Family Scholars Blog.] As an unintended consequence of participating in so many arguments about marriage equality, I’ve read a lot of work by so-called marriage advocates. Although on the subject of same-sex marriage I haven’t found their arguments … Continue reading →

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Kathryn Edin: “Everything we used to think about the poor with regards to marriage is probably wrong.”

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Ampersand

[Crossposted on Family Scholars Blog] Kathryn Edin is the co-author of Promises I Can Keep. I’d recommend that every Family Scholar blogger and reader read this book (and probably many already have). An Amazon review usefully summarizes the book: Kathryn … Continue reading →

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Family Politics Suck 2: The Difficulty of Fictionalized Autobiography

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I’m teaching a class in playwriting this semester and yesterday I introduced my students to David Ball’s definition of action. This is from his book Backwards & Forwards: “Action occurs when something happens that makes or permits something else to happen.” … Continue reading →

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Family Politics Suck!

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I wish I could tell you the stories motivating that title, because they are really good stories, and they come both from my own family and the family to which I am an in-law. It’s not that I can’t tell … Continue reading →

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