Marriage-Go-Round Author’s Advice to Obama Administration
via The Washington Times: Sociologist Andrew J. Cherlin’s advice to the Obama administration is to continue spending money to promote marriage, but mix in some advice to slow down. ‘Marriage is important,’ he said, but ‘get married’ should not be our sole message. ”We should spend less time promoting marriage and more time supporting stable caregiving in children’s lives. The two are not the same,” he said. This is especially important for single mothers, he added. It makes sense to encourage marriage with a young couple with a child “if that is their goal,” he said. But it makes less sense to encourage a young, single mother — who has broken up with the baby’s father — to rush into marriage with another man. // Check out Cherlin’s new book: ”The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today.”
