Is marriage dying | Richard Reeves

Why marriage is thriving — and dying — in different American classes, with journalist and scholar Richard Reeves. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► Up next, Male inequality, explained by an expert ► Marriage in the U.S. has fundamentally transformed over the past century. In general, women have far greater legal and economic power in marriages than they did just decades ago, and while it was once difficult for women to file for divorce, today women do so at twice the rate of men. What’s more, gay marriage has been legal in all 50 states since 2015. Still, other aspects of marriage in the U.S. have remained remarkably unchanged. As journalist and Brookings Institution scholar Richard Reeves points out, a college-educated woman today is about just as likely to get married as her mother was — and even a bit more likely to stay married. But the same is not true for