Quote from: James Donaldson
Highly educated women get married less, get divorced more, and have fewer children than less educated women.
Let's look at each claim in turn.
1) Highly educated women get married less.
This is untrue women who get a college degree are more likely to get married then women who do not complete high school.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/marriage-and-divorce-patterns-by-gender-race-and-educational-attainment-5.htm
Apparently you did not read the entire page carefully and look at the cited reference. Up until my X generation started to heavily influence the statistics, indeed college educated women were much less likely to marry. What you are seeing is the fact that my generation is the product of divorced hippies and we are rebelling against divorce and the destruction of the family.
But the fact remains that college education destroyed the country, because now you have the Y and Z generations following with the former being the 2nd batch of very spoiled kids from the hippies and the Z generation doesn't want to have anything to do with marriage.
Also the college educated women are getting married later and thus this is impacting fertility.
Also the statistics are slightly skewed by the fact that black males with no education rarely marry, so education for them is better than their instinctive culture.
My X generation is fighting valiantly against the tide, but we are losing the cultural evolutionary war. Our generation is not the most populous. That study was very narrowly focused on my X generation and was not a complete sample of the population at large.
Also I expect the reason that high school or less education is now correlating with much lower marriage and much higher divorce rates, is because:
a) Now only we don't have normal, hardworking, disciplined white women in that category contrary to what was the case when woman's suffrage was first enacted in the USA, and instead we have mostly white trash and brown trash.
b) Welfare and an overall improved standard of living enables trash to pop out babies out of wedlock without repercussions.
To show how statistics can lie, I am included in those who have married and not divorced by age 46, and also college educated, but my marriage, kids, and life are in shambles. And if I had followed what my hippie generation Dad had demanded I do, I would have been divorced at age 37. My generation is still remembering the culture of my grandparents, but the following generations will not have this perspective to draw on. And our marriages do not serve as strong examples because the schools have so eroded the minds of our offspring as compared to my generation.
2) Highly educated women get divorced more.
This is also untrue highly educated women get divorced less much less.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/12/04/education-and-marriage/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2016/08/19/the-most-educated-women-are-the-most-likely-to-be-married/amp/
This is also untrue highly educated women get divorced less much less.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/12/04/education-and-marriage/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2016/08/19/the-most-educated-women-are-the-most-likely-to-be-married/amp/
I am rushed out the door, but I am confident you will find similar holes in your stats.
3) Highly educated women have fewer children.
Only this claim is true. But even this does not not hold true across all of society. There is less data to work with here but in the Health and Religion thread I reviewed the indicators that some religious groups defy this trend. In these education appears to result in more not fewer children.
"Damned facts" do not help us understand the world if they are untrue or not understood in proper context.
Only this claim is true. But even this does not not hold true across all of society. There is less data to work with here but in the Health and Religion thread I reviewed the indicators that some religious groups defy this trend. In these education appears to result in more not fewer children.
"Damned facts" do not help us understand the world if they are untrue or not understood in proper context.
It holds true in the aggregate and thus the outcome of the aggregate society.