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Divorce and out of wedlock births are a much bigger problem for the lower classes according to the book "Coming Apart : The State of White America: 1960-2010" by Charles Murray. He has a whole chapter on it (chapter 8) where he compares Belmont (a representative upper middle class town) to Fishtown (a representative lower class town). I quote from chapter 8 : "Fishtown's higher divorce rate and much higher nonmarital-birth ratio combined to produce wide divergence from Belmont."
I was raised middle class and have many upper middle class people in my extended family. Nobody in my family gets divorced. For instance, my parents are still married for over 40 years. My mother has two Masters degrees and works in the education field and my father is a manager of managers or upper management. My sister just got married to a hedge fund manager who makes at least a half a million dollars a year and they are both have Bachelors degrees; there is no sign of them getting divorced any time soon. I have a cousin who made partner at a law firm and was making over $800,000 dollars a year. His wife is also a lawyer. He became an alcoholic but she still never divorced him so on and so forth etc..
The people of Fishtown are largely blue collar and do not have much education. Why should I care about these peasants and their problems ? Most, if not all, of these peasants have inferior genes that is why they are lower class. So why should I care how these lower class people structure the propagation of their genes through familial structures or lack thereof ?
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Apart-S...s=coming+apart
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