Marriage is not as effective an antipoverty strategy as you've been led to believe
Brides.com predicts that 2024 will be the "year of the proposal" as engagements tick back up after a pandemic-driven slowdown.
Brides.com predicts that 2024 will be the "year of the proposal" as engagements tick back up after a pandemic-driven slowdown.
Social Sciences
Feb 21, 2024
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The persistent gender gap in voting for Democrats versus Republicans is, in part, because a higher proportion of women than men voters are Black and because Black voters have historically voted overwhelmingly Democratic, ...
Social Sciences
Jun 12, 2023
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China's universal three-child policy was passed into law this past August to boost the country's birth rate, after a two-child limit—implemented more than five years ago—failed to do so.
Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2021
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One explanation for declines in marriage is a shortage of economically-attractive men for unmarried women to marry. Indeed, a new study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family reveals a significant scarcity of such ...
Social Sciences
Sep 5, 2019
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Gentrification is reshaping urban areas all around the world, displacing large segments of the population and making cities increasingly unaffordable.
Ecology
Mar 28, 2019
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Why do unmarried women tend to be more liberal and Democratic than their married counterparts? A key reason is because unmarried women—those who have never been married and those who are divorced—are more concerned about ...
Social Sciences
Aug 22, 2015
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Births and birth rates are normally subjects for family sociology or demographics. So what are they doing in a research programme on the political economy of modern capitalism?
Social Sciences
Mar 11, 2015
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(Phys.org) —An Iowa State University sociologist is not surprised by a recent U.S. Census Bureau report showing a spike in the number of unmarried women giving birth. According to the report, nearly 36 percent of babies ...
Social Sciences
May 10, 2013
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Unwed mothers face poorer health at midlife than do women who have children after marriage, according to a new nationwide study, which appears in the June 2011 issue of the American Sociological Review.
Social Sciences
Jun 2, 2011
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