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The Gruntled Center

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Faith and Family for Centrist

• Added on: Oct 28th, 2005
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Listed in: Independent Religion Culture

Recent Posts

• Marital Status Still Follows the Business Cycle, But Not as Much as It Used To.

  Posted on Thursday December 10th, 2009 at 08:05

  Alex Roberts has a fine article in the new State of Our Unions on the declining relationship between the business cycle and the divorce and marriage rates.The divorce rate goes down in recessions. It appears to be going down now. So does the marriag...

• Financial Fights Are the Best Predictor of Divorce

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 10:25

  The 2009 edition of The State of Our Unions has just been released by the National Marriage Project under new editors Brad Wilcox and Elizabeth Marquardt. The focus of the report this year is financial issues that affect marriage, especially during ...

• Women Surpassing Men in Schooling Creates a Marriage Problem

  Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 08:10

  Women outnumber men as college graduates and among masters degree holders. For every hundred women with a B.A., there are only 74 men; for every hundred women with an M.A., there are only 62 men. As F. Carolyn Graglia points out, this creates a marri...

• One More Funny Thing About Atlas Shrugged

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 18:52

  I think it is hilarious that the industry that Ayn Rand picked to represent the rugged individualism of the ruthless entrepreneur is a transcontinental railroad. It would be hard to find an industry in America that is more beholden to government. P...

• One Cheer for Atlas Shrugged

  Posted on Friday December 4th, 2009 at 11:28

  Let's start with what I like about Atlas Shrugged. I liked Rand's clear focus on doing excellent work, of using your brain and persisting. I do agree with her main point that the need of the less competent does not entail a legal obligation to subsi...

• Popenoe Says That Scholars Now Agree That Family Life Is Declining

  Posted on Thursday December 3rd, 2009 at 07:51

  David Popenoe, one of the early leaders of the pro-marriage movement among sociologists, has a fine interview with Carol Iannone in Academic Questions. In the '80s and '90s Popenoe was criticized for pointing out that marriage decline was leading to ...

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