Plus, the rise of ‘marriage deserts’ and what we can do about them
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Lisa Riley Roche writes: "I’ve been covering Utah’s Olympic dreams long enough that when our public relations team asked me for the date when I first got the assignment, I paused. I know I was there in Birmingham, England, in June 1991, when Salt Lake City saw the 1998 Winter Games go to Nagano, Japan. "And I know my first story when I took over the beat was about how the proposed budget for a 1998 Olympics had doubled. Was it 1991 when the leader of that bid, Tom Welch, tried to talk me out of writing about the escalating budget? Or was it even earlier? 'Maybe we should say the early 1990s,' I ended up telling the PR team ... "... Mostly what I remember from Birmingham all these years later is thinking then that I’d enjoyed covering the bid while it lasted and expected to move on to another assignment since clearly this one was finished. Instead, I’ve ended up writing about Utah and the Olympics for more than three decades." Read more about Lisa's coverage of the Olympics and Utah's bid. More in Olympics coverage USA Gymnastics made for a star-studded affair in Paris (Deseret News) The French loved the Paris Games’ opening ceremonies, poll shows (Deseret News) Injured Simone Biles, sick Jade Carey don’t slow down Team USA (Deseret News) Haley Batten of Park City makes U.S. Olympic history (Deseret News) She won't get to defend her gold medal from Tokyo. What Jade Carey said about her struggles on Sunday (Deseret News) |
| What happens when low marriage rates plague entire communities? Marriage deserts appear. According to Brad Wilcox and Chris Bullivant, marriage deserts arise out of disadvantageous socioeconomic factors, like poverty and geography. Regions like Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta and reservations in the Dakotas are rife with marriage deserts, as well as disadvantaged neighborhoods in larger cities. Role-modeling, too, is an important factor in influencing children to grow up and sustain two-parent households. Children who grow up with both parents in the household are more likely to do the same as adults. The same goes for income potential. "This lack of exposure to those with higher incomes, according to the research, limits upward income mobility," Wilson and Bullivant wrote. "Perhaps this is about role-modeling, too — high-income friends show what a high-income life looks like and how it is achieved." The solution, they argue, lies in civil society. Read more about marriage deserts and how to solve them. |
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