Cherlin’s\u00a0charts\u00a0each present the same data —\u00a0births by age and relationship status — for women who didn’t finish high school (figure\u00a0one), high school grads (figure two), women with some college (and so on), and women with a bachelors (etc). \u00a0There’s some differences between the first three graphs, but the big leap comes with the last.<\/p>\n
Didn’t finish high school:<\/p>\n
High school grads: \u201cThere are two clear paths through adulthood,” Cherlin told\u00a0The Altantic<\/em><\/a>, “one for people who have a bachelor’s degree and one for people who don’t.”<\/p>\n Thanks for the link @theologybird<\/a>!<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Everyone! Well, almost. Andrew Cherlin and his colleagues\u00a0report\u00a0that 64% of women and 63% of men have had at least one child out of wedlock. \u00a0The dominance of non-marital births is true for everyone, except people with four-year college degrees. Cherlin’s\u00a0charts\u00a0each present the same data —\u00a0births by age and relationship status — for women who didn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":63285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,387,34,122,272],"class_list":["post-63112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-dating","tag-education","tag-lifecourse","tag-marriagefamily"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/07\/13.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63112","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=63112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63286,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63112\/revisions\/63286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"1.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/06\/1.jpg5-500x295.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"1\"](\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/06\/11-500x307.png\")
<\/a> Some college:![\"2\"](\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/06\/2-500x319.png\")
<\/a> College grads:![\"3\"](\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/06\/3-500x307.png\")
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