It is true that women killed marriage. I wrote about it. But “female affluence” as Winship writes, can’t be the main culprit. We know this because the richest women are most likely to get, and stay, married. It’s poor women who end up single. Single mothers are overwhelmingly poor.
Yes, male wages explain marriage declines
Back in my day, conservative think tanks would publish content that amounted to “We should shame and/or criminalize poor women into getting married before having kids because they are too stupid to realize that’s what they should do.”
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