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Boulevardier's avatar

Women marrying down/lack of men at HBCUs are related subjects. Although broadly women are more likely to attend college than men, the gap is biggest with blacks, then Latinos, then whites, then Asians (the same order in a variety of racial metrics). The real question is if this difference means people are marrying outside of their class, and on this score my gut says not so much, especially with blacks and Latinos. It's quite easy to get a degree if you want to thanks to plentiful mediocre schools and federal financial aid, so I wouldn't be surprised if a large share of these couplings - as noted by Aaron - are women with education or social work degrees married to guys that work a trade or decent unskilled labor jobs. It's not white lawyer lady marrying the UPS man.

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God is reality and He always triumphs. Women innately look for a man to prove and provide for her and a potential family. What appears to be the determining factor today is a college education. I will submit that in the foreseeable future a college degree will not have the cache it has now for a variety of reasons. First, because of its expense and second and most importantly men are seeing a college degree (rightfully so) as a waste of their time. As more women get college degrees, the more men will stop going. Colleges have become overpriced and irrelevant to normal life in America. Most of these pieces are written by women (or neutered men) taking it as an article of faith that a college degree is essential. It is not.

I like to quote my father who was a lawyer (earning his law degree and passing the bar in the early 1930s when a college degree really meant something), marrying my mother who was a doctor (getting her degree and starting her practice in the late 1940s when women were supposedly mistreated) - “Rectal thermometers have degrees and you know where they put them.”

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