{"id":534,"date":"2007-06-01T08:25:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T14:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2007-06-07T17:41:07","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T23:41:07","slug":"why-marriage-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Why marriage is important&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..especially for children:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0According to The Economist, 92% of\u00c2\u00a0children whose families make more than $75,000 a year live with two parents (including step-parents).<\/p>\n<p>Those who marry &#8220;till death do us part&#8221; end up, on average, four times richer than those who never marry.<\/p>\n<p>Married men drink less, take fewer drugs and work harder, earning between 10% and 40% more than single men with similar schooling and job histories<\/p>\n<p>Children who do not live with both biological parents are also roughly twice as likely to drop out of high school and to have behavioural or psychological problems.<\/p>\n<p>Two-thirds of American children born to co-habiting parents who later marry will see their parents split up by the time they are ten. Those born within wedlock face only half that risk.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..especially for children: \u00c2\u00a0According to The Economist, 92% of\u00c2\u00a0children whose families make more than $75,000 a year live with two parents (including step-parents). Those who marry &#8220;till death do us part&#8221; end up, on average, four times richer than those who never marry. Married men drink less, take fewer drugs and work harder, earning between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=534\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why marriage is important&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}