Name: 婚姻正在消亡嗎？| 理查德-裡夫斯 (Is marriage dying? | Richard Reeves)
Uploaded: 2023-03-13T03:40:30.000Z
Duration: 6 min 30 s

- There's been a general decline in marriage-

形容詞比較級

but behind that general decline is a more interesting story.

但在這種普遍下降的背後是一個更有趣的故事。

to 不定詞

I think it's important we try to understand

我認為重要的是，我們要努力瞭解

why people do get married in the first place.

For some people, of course, it's a religious matter-

當然，對有些人來說，這是一個宗教問題--

There's obviously the companionship and love.

and so there's a romantic element to marriage.

是以，婚姻有一個浪漫的元素。

And another reason was because they got pregnant,

而另一個原因則是因為他們懷孕了。

There was a sense that if you were bringing a new life

有一種感覺，如果你把一個新的生命

into the world, that that should be done within marriage.

到世界上，這應該在婚姻內完成。

And there's probably a bit of status signaling to sometimes,

而且有時可能會有一點地位的象徵意義。

and this may be more true today than it was in the past,

而這一點在今天可能比在過去更真實。

of signaling success and status within a society.

在一個社會中標誌著成功和地位。

of reasons between religion, romance, economics

宗教、戀情、經濟之間的原因。

and status that have traditionally led people

和地位，這些都是傳統上導致人們

The old model of marriage was, for the woman,

舊的婚姻模式是，對女人來說。

particularly if she was gonna have children;

to be with a man who would be the provider.

與一個將成為提供者的男人在一起。

And obviously that has hugely changed now.

顯然，現在已經發生了巨大的變化。

And for the man, it was a way to attach himself to children.

而對於這個人來說，這是一種將自己與孩子們聯繫在一起的方式。

but if she was doing that, he had to provide for them too.

但如果她這樣做，他也必須為他們提供服務。

on a very deep inequality between men and women.

在男女之間非常深刻的不平等上。

the women's movement, including people, like Gloria Steinem,

婦女運動，包括像格洛麗亞-斯坦尼姆這樣的人。

變成一種選擇，而不是一種必要。

and to actually free women from the economic bondage,

And that inequality is what's been successfully

shattered, gladly, by the women's movement.

- 'All of us must stand up together and say no more.'

- '我們所有人都必須一起站起來，說不再有。

It's one engaged into, in very egalitarian principles;

這是一個從事到，在非常平等主義的原則。

that women are twice as likely as men to file for divorce.

女性提出離婚的可能性是男性的兩倍。

So women are using exit power from marriage,

是以，婦女正在使用來自婚姻的退出權。

they're not stuck in bad marriages anymore-

他們不再被困在糟糕的婚姻中了--

which is a huge achievement for humanity.

這對人類來說是一個巨大的成就。

但是，對於男人來說，當然是舊的角色。

"Well, I'll just provide while you raise the kids,"

"好吧，我只是提供，而你養育孩子。"

to use a slightly ugly term from social science,

使用社會科學中一個略顯醜陋的術語。

is very different now for men from what it was in the past.

現在的男性與過去有很大不同。

for something much more than just a paycheck.

這不僅僅是為了一份薪水，而是為了更多的東西。

It's a bit like the kaleidoscope has been shaken,

and the patterns haven't quite settled yet.

你看到女同性戀者和男同性戀者的夫婦

Within a couple of years of the Supreme Court Decision,

我們看到最多的是五個女同性戀者中的三個

You see a big class gap opening up: fewer working class

你看到一個巨大的階級差距正在形成：更少的工人階級

and lower income Americans opting into the institution.

和低收入的美國人選擇進入該機構。

What we have is what my colleague Isabel Sawhill calls:

我們所擁有的是我的同事伊莎貝爾-索希爾所稱的。

"One of the main class fractures in American society."

"美國社會的主要階級裂痕之一"。

with the most choice and the most economic power,

擁有最多選擇和最多經濟實力的人。

擁有最多的選擇權和經濟實力。

who would be the ones who were continuing to get married

There's a very slight decline for those say

有一個非常輕微的下降，對於那些說

with four-year college degrees, but a really big decline

擁有四年制大學學位的人，但真正的大幅下降

對於那些受教育程度較低的人來說。

The typical college-educated American woman

典型的受過大學教育的美國婦女

is almost as likely to get married as her mother was,

幾乎和她母親一樣有可能結婚。

and if anything, a little bit more likely to stay married

而且如果有的話，更有可能保持婚姻。

So, there really hasn't been much of a decline

是以，真的沒有出現太大的下降。

in marriage at all in the top ranks of American society.

在美國社會的最高層中，根本沒有婚姻。

Meanwhile, significant declines lower down.

同時，在較低的位置出現了明顯的下降。

a significant shift up in the age of first marriage,

我想到了我的父母，他們結婚後

21歲的人在17歲時相遇，這很常見。

And actually as late as 1970, most women who went to college

而實際上，遲至1970年，大多數上大學的婦女

in the U.S., which was a minority of course,