"About 80% of incarcerated individuals are low-income, and nearly two-thirds of their family members
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[QUOTE=joes33431;48720559]i think you're confusing causes and effects, to a degree.
low-wage long-hours work, uncertainty and instability with regards to housing and living situation, and financial trouble all take a toll on people and make it harder to keep stable long-term relationships.
sure, tax benefits and cooperation make financial life easier for married couples, but to get there you need stability, certainty, and mental well-being, things which the poor end up getting the least of.[/QUOTE]
We've had poverty forever, yet the rate of single adult households is a modern phenomena that started in the 1970s. I'm not sure how you can argue that it's an effect of poverty when that effect hasn't really been seen beyond the last 40 years or so.
Note that this social change is happening across the board, not just within poor neighborhoods, as well. It's been delayed in the middle and upper financial brackets, but the trend is definitely getting stronger.
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Being married makes life easier, not harder. You have less pressure to provide financially, you have a built in support system, etc. If anything those in poverty have an even bigger incentive to get married than those in higher financial brackets.
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