Can marriage reduce poverty? Marriage rates among the poor have dramatically declined since the '60s

Published: Saturday, Sept. 29 2012 5:09 p.m. MDT

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Although they've yet to set a date, Gata Negrra and her partner Ronald Moore of Newark like to brainstorm ideas for their wedding. "We're big geeks when it comes to thinking of the stuff we'd like to do," Negrra said. "We've thought of doing an anime theme or a Pirates of the Caribbean party."

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On the other hand

Spanish Fork, UT

Our society places an inordinate value on weddings. Young women in particular look forward to the wedding as their once-in-a-lifetime chance to live the opulent life of a princess. Turns out that a day of royal treatment requires a royal fortune. Not More..

7:48 p.m. Sept. 29, 2012
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Truthseeker

SLO, CA

Education is the key to decreasing poverty. Marriage can be a factor but in and of itself doesn't reduce poverty.

Non-marriage is often a result of poverty and economic insecurity rather than the other way around.
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9:35 p.m. Sept. 29, 2012
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worf

Mcallen, TX

Truthseeker,

Marriage increases the motivation for learning.

Like many men, I would never had finished college without the influence of my good wife.

In my opinion, poverty increases as marriages decline.

11:10 p.m. Sept. 29, 2012
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Can marriage reduce poverty? Marriage rates among the poor have dramatically declined since the '60s

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