> This does not seem to be supported by real world. In real world, poor people marry less in the first place. And when family income goes down, people divorce more.
A household with two earners sharing expenses, or dividing the load of work and childcare, is more financially stable than two separate households. This is basic arithmetic. The poverty rate of children living with two married parents is 7%. The poverty rate for children living with one parent is 33.6%. https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/population/qa01203.asp?qaDate....
> This is not true. The ability to divorce and leave partner makes it lower. The inability to divorce and social pressure to marry makes it higher. It is primary ability to be single when you want/need to that makes it go lower.
Countries with legal systems that punish domestic violence make it lower. It's certainly true that is an advantage the U.S. has over the developing world. But within the U.S., your theory does not pan out. In New York City, for example, Asians, who have by far the highest marriage rates, are less than 1/4 as likely to be involved in a domestic violence assault as Black people, who have by far the lowest marriage rates: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/ocdv/downloads/pdf/ENDGBV-Inters.... And you can't chalk that up to economics because Asians also have the highest poverty rates of any ethnic group in NYC: http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/?forum-post=resear.... Nationwide, Black women are 2.5 times more likely to be the victims of domestic violence than white women, but half as likely to be married. (This is one of the many ways in which white social liberalism has hurt Black women and children.) In another example, Appalachia has always had higher rates of family instability than other parts of the country. But it also has higher rates of domestic violence.
In fact, I suspect the causality actually runs in the other direction, all else being equal. Unfortunately, men aren't less violent merely because they're a boyfriend rather than a husband. But in a traditional marriage, there is a union of families, which means that the wife's family can scrutinize and police the husband's behavior. That social framework tends to absent entirely in casual relationships.
A household with two earners sharing expenses, or dividing the load of work and childcare, is more financially stable than two separate households. This is basic arithmetic. The poverty rate of children living with two married parents is 7%. The poverty rate for children living with one parent is 33.6%. https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/population/qa01203.asp?qaDate....
> This is not true. The ability to divorce and leave partner makes it lower. The inability to divorce and social pressure to marry makes it higher. It is primary ability to be single when you want/need to that makes it go lower.
Countries with legal systems that punish domestic violence make it lower. It's certainly true that is an advantage the U.S. has over the developing world. But within the U.S., your theory does not pan out. In New York City, for example, Asians, who have by far the highest marriage rates, are less than 1/4 as likely to be involved in a domestic violence assault as Black people, who have by far the lowest marriage rates: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/ocdv/downloads/pdf/ENDGBV-Inters.... And you can't chalk that up to economics because Asians also have the highest poverty rates of any ethnic group in NYC: http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/?forum-post=resear.... Nationwide, Black women are 2.5 times more likely to be the victims of domestic violence than white women, but half as likely to be married. (This is one of the many ways in which white social liberalism has hurt Black women and children.) In another example, Appalachia has always had higher rates of family instability than other parts of the country. But it also has higher rates of domestic violence.
In fact, I suspect the causality actually runs in the other direction, all else being equal. Unfortunately, men aren't less violent merely because they're a boyfriend rather than a husband. But in a traditional marriage, there is a union of families, which means that the wife's family can scrutinize and police the husband's behavior. That social framework tends to absent entirely in casual relationships.