{"id":39617,"date":"2013-08-18T23:01:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T23:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_editorial_decline_in_marriage_its_the_economy\/"},"modified":"2013-08-18T23:01:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T23:01:31","slug":"csm_editorial_decline_in_marriage_its_the_economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39617","title":{"rendered":"(CSM Editorial) Decline in marriage \u201d\u201c it\u2019s the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love and marriage. They\u2019re hitched together, traditionally. But more and more today they\u2019re being forced to lead separate lives.<\/p>\n<p>A good marriage can yield all kinds of emotional benefits, including happiness, companionship, and even better health, according to some studies. Marriage also can serve as a strong economic foundation, with each partner supporting the other\u2019s efforts to provide for the family.<\/p>\n<p>But a new study suggests another, more detrimental link between money and marriage: Joblessness or other economic insecurity leads to fewer marriages. That not only deprives those individuals of the benefits of marriage, in a broader context it deprives society of the benefits of marriage as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/the-monitors-view\/2013\/0813\/Decline-in-marriage-it-s-the-economy\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love and marriage. They\u2019re hitched together, traditionally. But more and more today they\u2019re being forced to lead separate lives. A good marriage can yield all kinds of emotional benefits, including happiness, companionship, and even better health, according to some studies.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39617\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,101,582,589,149,168,600,597,98,593,596,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-marriage-family","category-personal-finance","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}