On the Societal Benefits of Marriage

"Marriage has major benefits for children, adults, and society as a whole, said a marriage scholar this week, and the poor and less educated are suffering most from the widening class divide between those who get married and those who don't.

"'What we're seeing today in America is that upper middle-class Americans are much more likely to get and stay married compared to less educated, working class Americans - that's the marriage divide in brief,' Dr. W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociology professor and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, told CNA April 9.

"This divide in family structure is not just a private matter."

A recent National Catholic Register article reported on the changes in the status of marriage in the United States and on some of the consequences of these changes.

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National Catholic Register: In a Changed Country, Poor Americans Miss the Benefits of Marriage Most (11 APR 19)