Mitä pitäsi ajatella siitä, että USAssa ja varmaan meilläkin yliopistokoulutetut naiset menevät naimisiin edelleen yhtä usein kuin 50 luvulla ja saavat au-lapsia about yhtä harvoin kuin silloinkin?

Mikään siis ei ole heille muuttunut 50-luvusta kun muilla muutos on ollut huomattava.

When it comes to marriage, divorce, and single motherhood, the 1950s never ended for college-educated Americans, and for college-educated women in particular. According to the researchers Shelly Lundberg, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Robert Pollak, of Washington University in St. Louis, the share of young college-graduate white women who were married in 2010 was a little over 70 percent—almost exactly the same as it was in 1950. College-educated white women are, moreover, half as likely as other women to be divorced, according to Steven Martin of the University of Maryland, and they are also refusing single motherhood. Fewer than 9 percent of women with a bachelor’s degree or more had an unwed birth in 2011—a level barely higher than what it was for all women in 1950.

During the 1950s, marriage was the best—and perhaps only—route to economic security for women vaan ei ole enää. Silti ei näy halukkuudessa avioitua.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/maraprmay-2016/why-is-marriage-t…