the sex, marriage stuff is well-known. feminists have always made hay with the stat that the highest teen pregnancy rate was around 1955 or so.
i don't think, at this list, anyone found the findings a paradox.
At 04:13 AM 5/11/2010, Joseph Catron wrote:
>"Can it be? One of the oddest paradoxes of modern cultural politics may at
>last be resolved.
>
>"The paradox is this: Cultural conservatives revel in condemning the loose
>moral values and louche lifestyles of 'San Francisco liberals.' But if you
>want to find two-parent families with stable marriages and coddled kids,
>your best bet is to bypass Sarah Palin country and go to Nancy Pelosi
>territory: the liberal, bicoastal, predominantly Democratic places that
>cultural conservatives love to hate.
>
>"The country's lowest divorce rate belongs to none other than Massachusetts,
>the original home of same-sex marriage. Palinites might wish that
>Massachusetts's enviable marital stability were an anomaly, but it is not.
>The pattern is robust. States that voted for the Democratic presidential
>candidate in both 2004 and 2008 boast lower average rates of divorce and
>teenage childbirth than do states that voted for the Republican in both
>elections. (That is using family data for 2006 and 2007, the latest
>available.)
>
>"Six of the seven states with the lowest divorce rates in 2007, and all
>seven with the lowest teen birthrates in 2006, voted blue in both elections.
>Six of the seven states with the highest divorce rates in 2007, and five of
>the seven with the highest teen birthrates, voted red. It's as if family
>strictures undermine family structures.
>
>"Naomi Cahn and June Carbone -- family law professors at George Washington
>University and the University of Missouri (Kansas City), respectively --
>suggest that the apparent paradox is no paradox at all. Rather, it is the
>natural consequence of a cultural divide that has opened wide over the past
>few decades and shows no sign of closing. To define the divide in a
>sentence: *In red America, families form adults; in blue America, adults
>form families.*"
>http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/socialstudies.php
>
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