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Couples at the bottom of the socio-economic status or SES hierarchy have to wait a long

time to feel both financially secure enough to marry and prepare to meet their marital

expectations once married.

In an age of growing inequality, this means they are becoming less likely to marry, less

likely to have children inside of marriage, and more likely to divorce once married.

As family scholar Andrew Scherlin observes, college educated young adults see a realistic

future where they are likely to find a suitable partner and pool to its solid incomes.

Because of this, they are willing to wait to start a family until that stable point in

time.

Less educated women don't see the possibility of finding partners with good incomes, and

many are unwilling to give up the opportunity to have a kid by waiting.

All of the markers of adulthood graduating college, finding a good job, moving out of your

parents' home, buying your own home, getting married, and having children, having a baby

may be the only one that women with low level of education feel they have accessible to them.

According to Scherlin, this is a way a woman or a man can be a successful adult when all

other paths are blocked.

But what has happened to the pool of male partners available to low SES women?

Social economic status.

Between the 1970s and today, the wages of men with a high school education or less have

fallen, while those with at least a four year college degree have risen, men with low levels

of education are also much less likely to receive employer-provided health insurance

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