{"id":1470,"date":"2016-05-03T20:24:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T20:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2016-05-03T20:24:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T20:24:02","slug":"why-are-so-many-20-somethings-having-children-before-getting-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/2016\/05\/why-are-so-many-20-somethings-having-children-before-getting-married","title":{"rendered":"Why are so many 20-somethings having children before getting married?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text text-1 parbase section\">\n<p>From<strong> Slate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The picture of the twentysomething years painted by the pop culture\u2014think <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B008CFZQQS\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B008CFZQQS&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=slatmaga-20\" target=\"_blank\">Girls<\/a><\/em> or\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00BLZFFCQ\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00BLZFFCQ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=slatmaga-20\" target=\"_blank\">The Mindy Project<\/a><\/em>\u2014suggests that young adults use their 20s as a kind of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/09\/opinion\/09brooks.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">odyssey years<\/a>\u201d to bridge adolescence and adulthood. Judging by Hannah, Adam, and Mindy, the 20s are about getting educated and established at work, enjoying drinks and coffee with friends, trying your hand at relationships, all before the press of adult responsibilities sets in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-2 text parbase section\">\n<p>This picture is largely accurate for college-educated young adults as we show in our new report, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/twentysomethingmarriage.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Knot Yet: The Benefits and Costs of Delayed Marriage in America<\/a>,\u201d and it\u2019s a picture that ends up relatively rosy, even if the 20s have difficult <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/333885\/girls-not-coming-age-betsy-woodruff\" target=\"_blank\">moments<\/a>. These highly educated adults have embraced a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/book\/26768\/the-marriage-go-round-by-andrew-j-cherlin\" target=\"_blank\">capstone<\/a>\u201d model of marriage that typically leads them to put off marriage until they have had a chance to establish themselves professionally, personally, and relationship-wise. This capstone model is paying big dividends to the college-educated: Their divorce rate is low, and their income is high. We find, for instance, that college-educated women who postpone marriage to their 30s earn about $10,000 more than their college-educated sisters who marry in their mid-20s.<strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-3 text parbase section\">\n<p>But one major and more dystopian feature of actual contemporary twentysomething life is conspicuously absent from small-screen depictions: parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/double_x\/doublex\/2013\/03\/marry_in_your_twenties.html\">the rest of the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text parbase text-4 section\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Slate The picture of the twentysomething years painted by the pop culture\u2014think Girls or\u00a0The Mindy Project\u2014suggests that young adults use their 20s as a kind of \u201codyssey years\u201d to bridge adolescence and adulthood. Judging by Hannah, Adam, and Mindy, the 20s are about getting educated and established at work, enjoying drinks and coffee with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}