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Surveys reveal a growing "marriage gap" between affluent and poorer Americans, and Ms. Gallagher points to this as evidence that liberal elites see the importance of the binding marital contract, even if they "are not willing to preach what they practice".
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He attributed the marriage gap to differences in age and financial security between the groups.
In hard times, however, this "marriage gap" may diminish.
But in this cycle an even starker imbalance — the marriage gap — eclipsed gender.
There could be a gap between marriage and actual living together if the marriage took place before puberty or the ceremony of leaving the parental home was delayed for economic reasons.
Durrant has shown that married adolescent girls express little desire for family planning because of the pressure to produce an offspring, resulting in a short gap between marriage and first birth (30).
Nor are some variables from the old equation, like the number of previous marriages and the age gap between husband and wife.
If you take account of the cohabitation that routinely precedes Western marriage (but not Asian), the gap between East and West is even larger.
(The 2010 paper that shows the consistent gap between polling on gay marriage and referendum results also argues that there's no correlation between this gap and, say, the size of the state's gay population or other factors that would raise the social costs of being opposed to gay marriage).
Outside of Mozambique, ethnic groups with patrilineal descent systems typically result in a younger age at first marriage for women and a larger age gap between a husband and a younger wife [ 65].
Is there still a gap between how well same-sex marriage performs in the polls and at the ballot booth?
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