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Archive Home > 2012 > June > 15 > Trading ‘I do’ for ‘maybe later’

Trading ‘I do’ for ‘maybe later’

• More middle-class women put children before marriage

By Kim Ode / The Bulletin
June 15, 2012

MINNEAPOLIS — The playground taunt about “sittin’ in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g” spells out the conventions of adulthood: “First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage.”

That may be changing.

Fewer middle-class women follow what one study calls the “success sequence” of....

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