The Marriage Calculus

"Women with money and education tend to get and stay married in America. Why don’t working-class women do the same?" This question is at the center of a new magazine essay by Naomi Cahn, Harold H. Greene Professor of Law, and June Carbone, a law professor at the University of Minnesota. In the article, the authors, who also wrote the book Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family, dissect the underlying cultural and economic causes behind the disparity in family structure between classes.