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... middle class . Middle - class children experience the strains of blue - collar life . Working - class children slide into poverty , and the poor become trapped in a permanent underclass . When divorce and illegitimacy become normal ...
... middle class . Middle - class children experience the strains of blue - collar life . Working - class children slide into poverty , and the poor become trapped in a permanent underclass . When divorce and illegitimacy become normal ...
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... middle class comes not from the productivity of the Japanese but from the fragility of marriage . Children of divorced affluent parents may well enjoy a higher standard of living than many children in working - class marriages . But ...
... middle class comes not from the productivity of the Japanese but from the fragility of marriage . Children of divorced affluent parents may well enjoy a higher standard of living than many children in working - class marriages . But ...
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... middle - class status , black women , in particular , must and do work more often and longer hours than their white counterparts . The consequences for childbearing are great . Like whites , but far more rapidly , the black " family ...
... middle - class status , black women , in particular , must and do work more often and longer hours than their white counterparts . The consequences for childbearing are great . Like whites , but far more rapidly , the black " family ...
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