Marriage - Who Needs It?

Dallasblog.com | Caroline Walker:

“There are two pretty simple things we could tell young women right now that would practically guarantee their upward mobility: 1) Finish school, and 2) delay childbearing until you have a spouse with whom to set up house.”

Ed Cognoski responds:

I don't know what planet the conservative Caroline Walker lives on, but on planet Earth liberals have been advocating that advice for as long as I can remember. Maybe she is upset because liberals also concern themselves with women who are struggling because maybe they didn't finish school or ended up as single mothers, for whatever reason.

Caroline Walker criticizes a forum on "The Feminization of Poverty" because it seriously discussed the increasing rate of poverty experienced by single women. For the likes of Caroline Walker, the solution is simple — find a man to save you. She calls this "strengthening marriage". She has no use for those who concern themselves with women victimized by abusive husbands or women raising a family abandoned by their father. She has no use for those whose focus is on engineering equality for women. She dismisses the goal of a society that grants equality to women as being nothing more than "a plumbers' union comprised equally of men and women." For her, marriage is one-sided in favor of the man. In her world, equality for women is a threat to family. She should not be surprised why this notion never comes up at an event dedicated to the empowerment of women. It's because many people no longer believe that a man is the solution to every problem a woman might have or that marriage has to be an unequal partnership. At least people on this planet no longer believe that.