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What if the goal of women’s equality within the American political system is partly dependent on the persistence of marriage as an institution here? The rise in the percentage of women who have kids outside of marriage in the United States without a concomitant transformation of unmarried mothers into more engaged political participants suggests that,Givenchy Bag,Givenchy Shoes,Givenchy Shoes, far from experiencing a long-forecast and organic increase in political power in the years ahead,jimmy choo handbag,Givenchy Handbag, women will actually see it decline.

How’s that? Let me walk you though some of the studies pointing in this direction.

Over the weekend,jimmy choo purse,Givenchy Bag, Jason DeParle wrote a provocative piece about growing class divisions in family structure. Though there was some debate over how he described one of the studies cited in the piece,jimmy choo handbag,jimmy choo bag, in the main his New York Times piece was provocative not because of anything he wrote, but because the topic is one that is so fraught (with defenders of single moms, in particular, sensitive to any hint of woman-blaming for a social transformation many women feel helpless to fight given the changes in working-class male values and economic prospects). Observed DeParle, describing one partial source of the new inequality:

College-educated Americans … are increasingly likely