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Economics and the modern family
Divorce, single parenthood, cohabitation – and your wallet This article, the second part of a two-part series, is based on research work I did this past summer as a Washington Scholar with Family Research Council, a non-profit in Washington, DC, under the advising of Dr. Patrick Fagan. From this work, the article acts as a summary of a section of the synthesis paper I wrote on the [...]
Is marriage better for your wallet? A look at the economic evidence
Cultural and societal attitudes have recently shaped and modified the idea of the family to reflect a “modern” perception of how a household of individuals can look. There has been the growth in divorce over the past 50 years; an increase in out-of-wedlock births; a drastic drop in the number of individuals marrying. The percentage of households composed of single mothers, cohabiting [...]