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Thursday
Sep042008

The elite again

Hanna Rosin comments on some statistics that show that

An intact happy marriage that produces well-behaved children, it turns out, is becoming a luxury of the elites.
The conclusion seems to be that (at some level) being affluent helps people getting their act together (apparently "well-behaved" means "using contraception"). A functional family as a bourgeois privilege: one more item in a catalog of possessions. Richer people can afford it, the poor cannot.

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