The Widening Marriage Gap

James McGuire

English 322, Section #567

May 9, 2003

The Widening Marriage Gap

I agree that being married can be stressful. Even though single mothers need support their self independently, they are on welfare and need to have a job. Early teenagers have this urge to get pregnant immediately but they don’t know the lessons of full responsibility of taking care of babies. I think getting married isn’t the right time for me. College and having a career soon is important after marriage. It seems weird for young couples to be married they don’t understand how are they going to take care of living and having a roof over their head. Some kids without a parent only a mother have to take care of his brother and work for money to have a job. People decided to be married to people as the same racial color. Others want to be multicultural. It doesn’t bother me. All I care is that I have a girlfriend who loves me but, she is all the way from Turkey which being far apart is ok. When I am more mature enough, I should not be playing around on the computer or watching my favorite television shows. I should work hard as I possibly can in college so I can get an Associate Degree in computers. It will take me a lot of patience and time to do all the courses here.

From the article it amazes me about 60% of all American children born in 1990s will spend some significant portion of their childhood in a fatherless home. The great engine of single-parenthood is no longer divorce, as it was in the 1960s and 1970s; it’s the rising share of births to people who never marry to begin with. Nearly three-fourths of children in single-parent families will experience poverty by age 11, as against only about a fifth of children in two-parent families. Children raised in single-parent homes are at greater risk of poverty, school dropout, delinquency, teen pregnancy, and adult joblessness. I think the points Rausch makes about poverty is correct because, some teen-parents who don’t graduate from High School don’t make it in life and others do if a single one marries a rich person. Although there are chances than race or income, but married people without any kids learn from their selves, learn well independently and make enough money.