{"id":12456,"date":"2015-04-30T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12456"},"modified":"2015-04-30T08:07:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T12:07:23","slug":"want-to-boost-marriage-start-a-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/want-to-boost-marriage-start-a-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Want To Boost Marriage? Start A War!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/043015_1205_WantToBoost1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/asia\/21648715-distorted-sex-ratios-birth-generation-ago-are-changing-marriage-and-damaging-societies-asias\">The Economist<\/a> and others have argued that declining rates of marriage in developing countries is due to gender imbalances resulting from a preference for male children. Matt Phillips looked at statistics which indicated that this was not the case:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In France after World War 1 there were 40% fewer single males than females.<\/li>\n<li>Yet rates of marriage were higher than ever \u2013 French women simply adjusted by marrying younger French men.<\/li>\n<li>Couples were also more willing to engage in cross-class relationships.<\/li>\n<li>Therefore it seems that rates of marriage don&#8217;t depend as much on having roughly equal numbers of single males and females.<\/li>\n<li>War, in general, seems particularly good at boosting the appetite for marriage:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/043015_1205_WantToBoost2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/389781\/think-a-good-man-is-hard-to-find-now-try-france-after-world-war-i\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/389781\/think-a-good-man-is-hard-to-find-now-try-france-after-world-war-i\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist and others have argued that declining rates of marriage in developing countries is due to gender imbalances resulting from a preference for male children. Matt Phillips looked at statistics which indicated that this was not the case: In France after World War 1 there were 40% fewer single males than females. Yet rates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/043015_1205_WantToBoost1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12459,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions\/12459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}