The Marriage Gap -listen |Study links Marriage and wealth | Study links marriage as risk factor - 6/1/07

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- THE MARRIAGE GAP: LISTEN TO THIS RADIO BROADCAST
- STUDY: MARRIAGE, EDUCATION LINKED TO WEALTH
- ON THE OTHER HAND.....

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- THE MARRIAGE GAP: LISTEN TO THIS RADIO BROADCAST

This features Kay Hymowitz, author of "Marriage and Caste in American"
recipient of a 2007 Smart Marriages Impact Award who will present the Friday
lunch keynote address in Denver.

- The Marriage Gap 
OnPoint 
Aired: Thursday, May 31, 2007
By host Tom Ashbrook:

Fifty years ago, marriage and divorce rates in America were roughly equal
among all classes and races. Not anymore. Not even close. When headlines
this month announced divorce rates were down to their lowest point in
decades that was true, sort of.

They're down for the college-educated and affluent. Up for the poor. And
marriage itself is becoming the custom of the well-placed in society, a kind
of luxury item.

We are now a country where a huge portion of the affluent marry, and a huge
portion of the poor do not.

This hour On Point: the marriage gap, and what it means for the future of
families.

Quotes from the Show:

"There has been this drop [in divorce rates] but it's almost entirely among
the college-educated portion of the population so the people at the bottom
of the class level -- their divorce rate has gone up." David Popenoe

"The other element of this marriage gap has to do with people who are having
children outside of marriage and those again tend to be or probably three
times more likely to be low-income women and less-educated women rather than
college-educated women." Kay Hymowitz

"For the African-American populations, there is something new here because,
historically, even among African-Americans who didn't marry, there was a lot
of co-habitation and there were common-law marriages and they tended to be
more or less stable over time. Now however, 70 percent of African-American
children or nearly 70 percent are born to unmarried parents and they are
much less likely than whites to co-habit. ... But again, the important thing
to point out is that this is now a quite common phenomenon in our society
generally. " Ronald Mincy

Guests: 
- David Popenoe, professor and founder of the National Marriage Project at
Rutgers University, and author of "War over the Family"

-  Kay Hymowitz, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and author of
"Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a
Post-Marital Age"

-  Ronald Mincy, professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work,
and editor of "Black Males Left Behind"

Listen at: http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2007/05/20070531_a_main.asp

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- STUDY: MARRIAGE, EDUCATION LINKED TO WEALTH

Study: Marriage, education linked to wealth
by Colleen Freyvogel
May 29, 2007

WASHINGTON‹A Capitol Hill study produced by the Joint Economic Committee
finds wealth is directly related to higher educational attainment and
marriage.

³Getting a college education, holding a job and forming a family through
marriage are three key factors that distinguish high-income households from
those at lower ends of the economic spectrum,² Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas,
ranking Republican on the committee.

Brownback, a social conservative who is running for president, said ³Federal
policy designed to address income inequity should focus on improving
education and removing obstacles to work and marriage, rather than harming
economic growth, job creation and our standard of living by increasing
taxes.²

The study, undertaken by the panel¹s Republican staff, showed 18 percent of
households in the lowest income group are married couples. By comparison, 79
percent in the highest income bracket were married.

³The marriage premium has really taken off,² said Rae Hederman, policy
analyst at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. ³It¹s kind of
common sense that combined they can pool their resources so they are better
off because more and more women are joining the workforce.²

Hederman said individuals tend to marry others with comparable education
attainment.

The study showed households headed by college degree holders ³take in 3.8
times as much income and hold 11 times as much wealth as those with no high
school diploma.²

According to the most recent statistics released by the Census Bureau more
than 27,000 Durham residents have at least a bachelor¹s degree, nearly
17,000 have masters or professional degrees and nearly 4,800 have doctorate
degrees.

He said public policies aimed redistributing wealth among income groups run
counter to the tradition American value of upward mobility.

³Mobility is still fairly robust in the United States,² Hederman said.

 Joint Economic Committee Chairman Charles Schumer and Vice Chairwoman
Carolyn Maloney ­ both New York Democrats ­ could not be reached immediately
for comment on the Brownback report.

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- ON THE OTHER HAND.....

> New Caledonia conference hears marriage an HIV risk for women
> Radio New Zealand International
> 31 May, 2007
> 
> The delegates to the 10th Triennial of Pacific Women meeting in New Caledonia
> have heard that marriage can put women at higher risk of HIV.
> 
> Robyn Drysdale, who is the Behaviour Change Communication Specialist at the
> Pacific Community, says women risk contracting HIV from the men they TRUST the
> most, that is their husbands.
> 
> Ms Drysdale says in Papua New Guinea marriage has been identified as a risk
> factor for women for HIV infection.
> 
> She says increasing numbers of women across the Pacific are becoming infected,
> and the number of women infected in Papua New Guinea is higher than men.

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