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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 30 2017, @06:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the changing-times dept.

As the number of highly educated women has increased in recent decades, the chances of "marrying up" have increased significantly for men and decreased for women, according to a new study led by a University of Kansas sociologist.

"The pattern of marriage and its economic consequences have changed over time," said lead author ChangHwan Kim, associate professor of sociology. "Now women are more likely to get married to a less-educated man. What is the consequence of this?"

Kim's co-authored the study with Arthur Sakamoto of Texas A&M University, and the journal Demography recently published their findings. They examined gender-specific changes in the total financial return to education among people of prime working ages, 35 to 44 years old, using U.S. Census data from 1990 and 2000 and the 2009-2011 American Community Survey.

Your dreams of finding a Sugar Momma may finally come true.

ChangHwan Kim, Arthur Sakamoto. Women's Progress for Men's Gain? Gender-Specific Changes in the Return to Education as Measured by Family Standard of Living, 1990 to 2009–2011. Demography, 2017; DOI: 10.1007/s13524-017-0601-3


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @04:51PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @04:51PM (#562179)

    Such as?

    Ask Tom Ball.

    Seriously? Did you even bother to read that link? The guy smacked his daughter so hard that she got a busted lip, and that is by his own admission. That. Is. Not. Normal. Parental. Discipline. Full stop. Much of the rest of his problems appear to be largely caused by him having a bug up his butt about Family Services telling, no, you can't physically abuse your kids. And I picked that up from what little I read of his maundering, self-congratulatory "last statement".

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @09:55PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @09:55PM (#562311)

    The guy smacked his daughter so hard that she got a busted lip, and that is by his own admission. That. Is. Not. Normal. Parental. Discipline. Full stop.

    Like it or not, physical punishment (including spanking, pinching, and yes, slapping) is widely used in the USA. As such, it is - by definition - normal. The abnormality is government agents butting in at gunpoint, rather than the normal societal remedies for physical punishments that others judge to go too far.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 01 2017, @12:04AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 01 2017, @12:04AM (#562349)

      Like it or not, physical punishment (including spanking, pinching, and yes, slapping) is widely used in the USA. As such, it is - by definition - normal.

      Hard enough to leave a little girl bruised and bleeding? I don't think so.

      The abnormality is government agents butting in at gunpoint, rather than the normal societal remedies for physical punishments that others judge to go too far.

      He was referred to Family Services for counseling, which he refused to go to. (He seemed to feel that the case worker "had it in for him".) Call me weird but I don't think referral for counseling is "going too far".

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 01 2017, @12:31AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 01 2017, @12:31AM (#562356)

        Hard enough to leave a little girl bruised and bleeding? I don't think so.

        You think wrong, then. It's not something people like to see, but as one example, I sat on a grand jury regarding the prosecution of a parent who deeply bruised a little girl's legs and/or rump. None of us liked the circumstances, but all told, the harm done by an apparent one-off physical punishment by a parent would be grossly overshadowed by a criminal prosecution.

        We no-billed the parent.