Women with college degrees are about 90% likely to be married IF they have kids.
It used to be said that a high school diploma would prevent illegitimacy but 50% of women with between 12 to 16 years of education aren’t married when they give birth.
A sociologist from the U of Pennsylvania recently described marriage as a “luxury item.”
When we ‘bit the bullet’ and decided to become an ‘at home Mom’ we were also told that was a luxury. In the process we forfeited a very nice paycheck/benes, fancier car, eating out, vacations, etc. In exchange we got to have kids whose mother could walk them to and meet their school bus, take them to after-school activities, help with homework, lead the Scout/soccer/PTA, etc. Wouldn’t trade a thing.