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Apr 18, 2015 @ 05:58:51
There’s a bit of a problem in defining “in poverty.” A woman who chooses to stay home is providing her household services that a working woman may have to pay for, such as cooking, cleaning, and, most obviously, child care. Did the definition of poverty adjust for that? If not, it overestimated the relative poverty of the stay at home mothers.
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Apr 19, 2015 @ 01:01:11
Thanks David, have you seen the book Promises I Keep on teen Motherhood summarised at https://utopiayouarestandinginit.com/2014/08/21/too-few-good-men-rational-behaviour-and-the-causes-of-teen-pregnancies/
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Apr 20, 2015 @ 10:05:29
I haven’t seen the book, but it fits an argument I’ve been making for a long time. Back when abortion and contraception were legally dubious, the argument for legalizing abortion and making contraception much more readily available was that it would reduce the number of “unwanted children.” The implicit assumption was that children born by single mothers were unwanted, the result of unintended pregnancies.
If that was correct, the number of such should have dropped sharply when abortion became legal and contraception widely available. What actually happened was the opposite. The obvious explanation of the failure to drop is that the children were mostly not unwanted–as I gather the book argues. The explanation of the increase, along the lines of an old article by Akerlof and Yellin, is that delinking sex from pregnancy meant that women who didn’t want children were willing to have sex, which increased the ability of men to have sex without marriage, which weakened the competitive position of women who wanted children and would have preferred to have them within marriage but couldn’t find a suitable man willing to marry them. So more such women ended up becoming single mothers.
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Apr 24, 2015 @ 00:44:36
Thanks David, I agree with what you say.
Their is a section in the book that talks about how young women have babies with their boyfriends in the hope that becoming a father might turn them into husband material, rather than just boyfriend material.
see http://www.hoover.org/research/too-few-good-men for a superb review by Amy Wax – one of the best book reviews I’ve ever read.
Her website is worth a look too at https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/awax/ for Diverging Family Structure and ‘Rational’ Behavior: The Decline in Marriage as a Disorder of Choice, in THE ECONOMICS OF THE FAMILY (Lloyd R. Cohen & Joshua D. Wright eds., Elgar Publishers 2011). and Engines of Inequality: Race, Class, and Family Structure, 41 FAM. L.Q. 567 (2007).
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