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Why should be incentivize marriage, OP?
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Dp.  Heard a really good interview with her on npr.  Basically she argues we throw tons of money at school and welfare programs for struggling kids and get very poor outcomes for that money (especially for boys.). If we instead invested in getting and keeping parents married we’d be making a much better investment.

The trick is how do you do that?  And her answer seems to be we need to ensure good paying blue collar jobs for men.  Otherwise women cant/won’t marry them when they get pregnant.

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I'd agree with all of this.

You'd be remiss to think that women don't marry in order to make sure they still have social welfare programs though. I worked a low wage job through college and it was eye opening. My coworkers knew to the hour how much they had to work and not work in order to make sure their wages fell below the amount needed for different programs. Quite a few lived together, but refused to get married because they'd lose benefits. Instead they were engaged. [/quote]

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