Marriage and the poor is a long and sordid topic. Adolph Reed has pointed out that, for liberals, unwed mothers are a problem if they are poor, and a feminist achievement if they are elite. From the 1965 Moynihan Report to Obama’s hectoring black fathers, moralizing against the poor’s family decisions has been tied to a social science discourse that mixes correlation with causation to lecture and demean. Poor people getting married won’t suddenly make them better-educated and wealthier. Concern masks coercion.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 23:09:52 +0000
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