How Welfare Programs Discourage Marriage: The Case of Pre-K Education Subsidies

This will be a part of the sixth cycle’s politics but a declining part. Traditional marriage was an economic necessity, aligned with religious beliefs. With the end of the bond of economic necessity, the birth rate will obviously decline.

In the era of the institutional marriage, from the nation’s founding until around 1850, the prevalence of individual farming households meant that the main requirements Americans had for their marriage revolved around things like food production, shelter and protection from violence.

In the era of the companionate marriage, from roughly 1850 until 1