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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are two points getting conflated here that are addressed somewhat in the Politico article. One point is that the people who are dysfunctional or not at all inclined to support a family (e.g., drug addicts, the chronically unemployed by choice) are not the ones who the experts think should be marrying. They shouldn't be having kids, but that's a different issue. We are talking about encouraging people who are otherwise functional people to get married.

The second point is that we should take steps as a society to make it easier to stay married and raise children. There is a LOT of disagreement about what those policies are or even what the policy considerations should be. But no one is suggesting that there are not likely policy solutions to the question of why people don't want to get or stay married.[/quote]

But if you look at all those studies closely, there are no controls for being functional.   That’s the whole point - they compare married couples vs single parents and ignoring the huge selection bias.  There is a big difference between a woman who decided to become a single mother by choice and used a sperm donor vs a woman who ended up parenting single because the father is not good for anything.[/quote]

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