Marriage and money in the Great Recession
December 14th, 2009
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“Many couples are rediscovering the longstanding sociological truth that marriage is one of society’s best insurance plans”. Amen. Take that, Britain. This article shows that the recession was not all bad.
How are marriages — American marriages, at least — doing during the Great Recession? That is the question the latest State of Our Unions report from the National Marriage Project sets out to answer, and the findings are not all bad news.
Good News: Divorce fell during the first full year of the recession — the first annual dip since 2005, and evidence that the challenges of job losses, foreclosures and depleted retirement accounts may be driving some couples to stick together, says a press release from NMP. Read more…
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