Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American ..

June Carbone and Naomi Cahn are saying that our society is being changed by the expanding wealth gap. They are saying that women are facing a huge deficit of suitable marriage partners.

They are also saying that to avoid trapping women in bad situations, that they must have access to contraception and abortion, and that this has to be publicly funded.

They are saying that if you are not white, or if you are minority, then the odds start to get very high that your only info about contraception was high school sex ed, and that you have been exposed to one of these abstinence only programs.

But to function in this world, women must have good access to contraception and abortion.

And then if a woman has very low chances of gaining a stable and workable marriage, and economic stability, then she has no reason not to get pregnant and carry to term. And this perpetuates the increasing stratification.

Carbone and Cahn wirte on page 188,

"American marriages are less stable than European cohabitations; the instability rather than the lack of a ring is what effects children."

And they are citing a study based on a 3 year long federally funded marriage promotion program, finding that it had absolutely zero effect.

These two authors are saying that our Family Law system has completely broken down, as the assumptions about families are no longer at all relevant. They don't see any real solution coming, but they do want to fix things so that parents are investing in children. Otherwise, as most of this is driven by economics, we have the perpetuation of economic stratification.

Of course I find these authors way too conservative, but this is all still very interesting to me.

SJG

News Flash: Steve Bannon was influenced by the notorious fascist occultists Julius Evola and Rene Guenon, and related groups of reactionary Catholics.

www.democracynow.org/2017/7/26/joshua_green_on_how_steve_bannon#transcript

[Talk Gnosis] An Introduction to Martinism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEu3TIjfKbo

[Talk Gnosis] Martinism & Gnosticism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZz7z784MiY

French Occult and Gnostic Masters, Occult Paris, Tobias Churton ( always quite a character )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVJ4lYgTi0Y

June Carbone and Naomi Cahn are trying to save the middle-class family from itself.

Of course this is a hopeless situation. Do these authors know this? I think they do.

But what they want is to try to protect children, as the current state of affairs discourages investment of time and energy in children.

There has been expansion in the ranks of well off men. But the middle and below has really been hurt. The well off men can benefit from changes in Family Law and the uses of prenuptial agreements. So the risks of marriage are lowered.

Not that many well off women, but for those that are, they are in demand, and they appreciate the privilege of being able to marry a man who makes more than they do.

But for everyone else, things are really tough. In marriage or cohabitation, both parties are risking loss of money and their children.

These two authors seem to want to reduce the collateral damage and offer more protection to children.

But do they want to give children outside public support, and make children into persons instead of chattels?

I'll finish with this book and then read their earlier one about Red and Blue Families.

SJG

This looks good, though mid 90's

Jennifer L. Hochschild
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691029202

Jennifer L. Hochschild is not related to Arlie or Adam

This book is in high demand and I think well worth reading to understand the dire plight our nation is in:
www.amazon.com/Strangers-Their-Own-Land-Mourning/dp/1620972255/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501276214&sr=8-1&keywords=arlie+hochschild+strangers+in+their+own+land
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691029202