Adolescent family structure also has important implications for family formation among young adults. The next graph indicates that men and women who hail from intact families are about 40 percent less likely to father or bear a child outside of wedlock. This is important because nonmarital childbearing reduces your odds of successfully getting and staying married down the road, maximizing your income, and of providing a stable home to your children.

Marriage might even have economic benefits at the citywide level. A recentstudy from Harvard and UC-Berkeley found that the most important predictor of economic mobility was the low share of single moms in a community. Mobility for poor kids was highest in the Salt Lake City metro area, which also happens to have one of the lowest rates of single motherhood of any major metro area in the country.

不富裕家庭的年轻人，若是由父母双亲抚养长大，更有机会大学毕业并获得高薪。

在由已婚父母养育下长大的年轻人大学毕业的机会要多出44%。

事实上，机会始于家庭——特别是父母。诺贝尔经济学奖得主詹姆斯·海克曼最近指出，“家庭在孩子的出生中扮演了强有力的角色，决定了其一生的机会。”

研究表明健全的婚姻家庭中长大的青年人在教育上和经济上都更有可能成功。在母亲没有大学学历的不富裕家庭，家庭完整就是最大的优势。

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