Breakdown of the Family Unit

Two Classes Divided by "I Do"

This article describes why it is better to get through school, get married, then have children, in that order.  A telling quote from this article is:

But striking changes in family structure have also broadened income gaps and posed new barriers to upward mobility. College-educated Americans like the Faulkners are increasingly likely to marry one another, compounding their growing advantages in pay. Less-educated women like Ms. Schairer, who left college without finishing her degree, are growing less likely to marry at all, raising children on pinched paychecks that come in ones, not twos.