The politically incorrect data continues to pour in, and of course it's continually ignored by mainstream media, feminists, homosexualists and other sexual revolutionaries: Marriage and procreation is critical to societal stability and success, including personal economic achievement for both men and women.
For background, click headlines below to read previous articles:
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Married Birthing Nearly Extinct Among Non-college Grads
ObamaNation: Perpetual Poor Barred from Marriage
Violence & Poverty due to Absence of Intact Family
Liberalism Causes Poverty in America: Study
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-- From "Don’t be a bachelor: Why married men work harder, smarter and make more money" by W. Bradford Wilcox, Washington Post 4/2/15
. . . Marriage has a transformative effect on adult behavior, emotional health, and financial well-being—particularly for men. (Parenthood is more transformative for women.)
Our research, featured in a recent report, “For Richer, For Poorer: How Family Structures Economic Success in America,” indicates that men who are married work about 400 hours more per year than their single peers with equivalent backgrounds. They also work more strategically: one Harvard study found that married men were much less likely than their single peers to quit their current job unless they had lined up another job.
Men who get married work harder and more strategically, and earn more money than their single peers from similar backgrounds. Marriage also transforms men’s social worlds . . .
1. After marrying, men assume a new identity. . . .
2. Married men are motivated to maximize their income. . . .
3. Married men benefit from the advice and encouragement of their wives. . . .
4. Employers like married men with children. . . .
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From "Income Inequality: Married Couples With Kids Make Average of $107,054" by Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com 4/15/15
Married couples with children under 18 years of age, according to the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (Table HINC-04), made an average household income of $107,054 in 2013 and a median household income of $85,087.
. . . married couples with no children under 18 had an average household income of $91,870 in 2013 and a median household income of $70,995. That was about 86 percent of the average household income and 83 percent of median household income earned by their married counterparts who did have children under 18.
Unmarried couples with children under 18 had an average household income of $65,337 and a median of $50,031. That was only about 61 percent of the average income and 59 percent of median household income of their married counterparts.
Unmarried couples with no children did only a little bit better, with average household incomes of $76,609 and median household incomes of $62,126. That was only about 72 percent of the average household income and 73 percent of the median household income of married couples with kids.
Nonfamily male householders with no minor children had an average household income of $53,217 and a median of $36,600. That was only about 50 percent of the average household income and 43 percent of the median household income of married couples with kids.
Nonfamily female households with no minor children had an average household income of $39,781 and a median of $26,355. That was only 37 percent of the average household income and 31 percent of the median household income of married couples with children.
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From "The Marriage Benefit--Married Men Make More Money than Singles (They Also Work Way More Hours)" by Donald Liebenson, Spectrem's Millionaire Corner 4/8/15
A new study conducted by W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, and Robert Lerman, an economics professor at American University, finds that married men work harder and earn more money than their single counterparts who may be just as qualified.
Is there a correlation between marital status and wealth level? Yes, the Wilcox and Lerman study finds. Married men ages 28-30 make $15,900 more their single counterparts, while married men between 44 and 46 years old make $18,800 more than single men of the same ages.
The Wilcox and Lerman report further posits that “declines in the propensity to marry, along with normative shifts in the acceptability of nonmarital births and fatherlessness, have led to major declines in stable two-parent families, which in turn have exacerbated problems of poverty, increased inequality, and weakened opportunities for economic mobility… We find that men and women who hail from an intact family (where both parents are present) are more likely to flourish in the contemporary workplace and to enjoy an ‘intact-family premium.’”
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From "Strong Nuclear Family Is Crucial To Nation’s Financial Stability" by Richard Larsen, Western Journalism 4/13/15
Drawing from Department of Labor data, [Robert I. Lerman and William Bradford Wilcox] showed how American families experienced an average 80% increase in their real income from 1950-1979. Family income inequality was relatively low, and more than 89% of prime working age men were employed. All of those trends have reversed, and are accelerating to the downside, with the composition and structure of the family playing the most crucial role in this reversal.
In 1980, married parents headed 78% of households with children. By 2012, that had dropped nearly 20%. . . .
Even adjusting for race, education, and other factors, if the share of married parents remained at 78% through 2012, “the rise in the overall median income of parents would have been about 22%, substantially more than the actual growth of 14%.” And if the post-1979 immigrants, coming mostly from low-income countries, are adjusted for, the “growth in median family income would have been 44% higher than 1980 levels.” They therefore conclude that the decline in the share of “married-parent families with children largely explains the stagnancy in median family incomes since the late 1970s.”
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From "Op-ed: Decline of marriage is a primary reason for inequality" by W. Bradford Wilcox, Deseret News 4/5/15
. . . Men who aren’t married to the mother of their children are much less likely to invest financially, practically and emotionally in those children’s lives. That’s because families formed outside of marriage (or split by divorce) typically end with the kids living with mom, while dad’s day-to-day involvement declines.
What’s more: because the decline of marriage is concentrated in working-class and poor communities, these disconnected dads are most likely to be found in the very communities that can least afford to support lots of single-mother headed households. By contrast, the vast majority of college-educated parents manage to get and stay married. The decline of marriage thus ends up being a major contributor to economic inequality, gender inequality and social inequality. . . .
The retreat from marriage also fuels two kinds of gender inequality that rarely get airtime in the mainstream media. First, working-class and poor mothers end up carrying a much bigger share of the load associated with raising children than do (absent) fathers: The parent who lives with the children, in most cases the mother, is predictably going to do most of the day-to-day household and child care chores.
Second, boys from working-class and poor communities struggle more than their female peers to navigate life without the steady involvement of their fathers. . . .
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Click headlines below to read previous articles:
Marriage Rates Low Among Millennial Generation
Defeating Marriage & Destroying Family: Survey
President Obama Replaces Fathers with Government Mentors
'Intact Family' Nearly Extinct Among Blacks
