Sociologist Stephanie Coontz writes for The New York Times about the growing disparity in marriage stability between the educated and those with less than a college degree. It isn't exactly news, we've commented on it before.
Like the good liberal she undoubtedly is, she attributes the instability among the lower orders to declining career opportunities and declining wages. If you read carefully what she's written, you'll discover that erasing the income differences between men and women has also been a factor in high divorce rates, although she hopes you will discount its importance.
This is a carefully crafted exercise in political correctness, by a faculty member at one of the most liberal public campuses on the West Coast. Evergreen State College is a small non-traditional liberal arts campus in Olympia, WA, trying to be another U.C., Santa Cruz, somewhere to the left of Chairman Mao.
