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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Tue Feb 10, 2015, 05:44 PM Feb 2015

Poverty Will Not Be Solved By A Marriage License

Poverty Will Not Be Solved By A Marriage License
National Memo

Too many of the politicians trying to solve poverty have no idea what it's like to be poor.

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Poverty Will Not Be Solved By A Marriage License (Original Post) Panich52 Feb 2015 OP

Marriage isn't a fix FLPanhandle Feb 2015 #1

FLPanhandle

(7,107 posts)

1. Marriage isn't a fix

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Tue Feb 10, 2015, 05:50 PM

Feb 2015

I thought this paragraph summed up the article nicely.

"Poor, less-educated women do not have a plethora of highly educated, upper-middle-class men vying for their attention. Their love interests are more likely to be underemployed men with low skill levels and possibly a criminal record. Telling these women to just pick one and marry him is hardly a good choice."

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