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July 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda THURSDAY, July 12 (HealthDay News) — Money problems, drinking
and drug use are among the social and economic factors that make
low-income couples less likely to marry and more likely to divorce than
couples with more money, a new study suggests.
But the researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles,
also found that people with lower incomes value the institution of
marriage just as much as those with higher incomes, and have similar
romantic standards for marriage.
The findings suggest that efforts to strengthen marriage among
low-income people should move beyond promoting the value of marriage and
instead focus on the problems faced by low-income people, according to the
authors of the study, which was published in a recent issue of the
Journal of Marriage and Family.
“Over the past 15 years, efforts to tackle declining marriage rates and
increasing divorce rates among low-income couples in the [United States]
have been guided by assumptions about why there are fewer low-income
marriages and why a higher percentage fail,” study co-author Thomas Trail
said in a journal news release. “The aim of our study was to separate the
myth from the reality.”
He and colleague Benjamin Karney analyzed telephone survey responses
from more than 6,000 people in Florida, California, New York and Texas.
The average age of the participants was 45.
Compared to those with higher incomes, people with lower incomes held
similar values toward marriage, were less likely to approve of divorce and
were more likely to value the economic aspects of marriage, including the
husband and wife having good jobs.
“Prompted by the belief that the institution of marriage is in crisis
among the poor, the federal government has spent $1 billion on initiatives
to strengthen marriage among low-income populations,” Karney said in the
news release. “Often these are based on the assumption that there must be
something wrong with how people with low incomes view marriage or that
they just are not very good at managing intimate relationships.”
But, Trail said, “We found that people with low incomes value marriage
as an institution, have similar standards for choosing a marriage partner
and experience similar problems with managing their relationships. We
suggest that initiatives to strengthen marriage among the poor should also
take social issues into account, as they can place a tremendous amount of
stress on a marriage.”
More information
The U.S. Administration for Children and Families outlines the benefits of a healthy marriage.
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