{"id":20512,"date":"2010-02-20T10:15:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T15:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=20512"},"modified":"2013-12-15T04:06:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T09:06:31","slug":"hypothesizing-uneven-rates-of-married-households","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/20\/hypothesizing-uneven-rates-of-married-households\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypothesizing Uneven Rates of Married Households"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/2001pubs\/c2kbr01-8.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">US Census Bureau<\/a> put together the map below.\u00a0 It shows what percentage of households in any given county include a married couple.\u00a0 In the counties colored with the darkest turquoise, between 59.6 and 79.6% of households consist of a married couple.\u00a0 In the counties colored white, less than 51.6 do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/20\/hypothesizing-uneven-rates-of-married-households\/capture-93\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20517\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20517\" title=\"Capture\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/02\/Capture4.jpg\" width=\"569\" height=\"422\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s interesting to speculate as to how the reasons why there are more or less married couple households might vary by place. For example, some places may have disproportionate numbers of gay and lesbian residents who cannot, legally, get married. Others may have higher rates of poverty, which has been shown to decrease relationship stability, leading to less marriage and more divorce.\u00a0 Still others may have normative or religious pressures in favor of marriage (Utah strongly stands out as the most marriage-prone state).\u00a0 The racial\/ethnic make-up of counties may contribute to marriage rates; we know, for instance, that black women marry at a lesser rate than white women for a whole host of reasons.\u00a0 Racial\/ethnic homogeneity may play a factor too, since interracial marriage is still uncommon and asymmetrical <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/04\/raceethnicity-assimilation-and-asian-american-marriages\/\" target=\"_self\">when it<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/01\/22\/asymmetry-in-interracial-relationships\/\" target=\"_self\">does occur<\/a>.\u00a0 Some counties have more <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/08\/the-marriage-market\/\" target=\"_self\">disproportionate ratios of males and females<\/a>, which may also shape marriage rates. What do you think?\u00a0 More hypotheses?\u00a0 Arguments one way or another?<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Census Bureau put together the map below.\u00a0 It shows what percentage of households in any given county include a married couple.\u00a0 In the counties colored with the darkest turquoise, between 59.6 and 79.6% of households consist of a married couple.\u00a0 In the counties colored white, less than 51.6 do. I think it&#8217;s interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,55,1826,272,285,42],"class_list":["post-20512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-gender","tag-geographymaps","tag-marriagefamily","tag-raceethnicity","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20512"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60452,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512\/revisions\/60452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}