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| Subject: Nobody is 'marrying up' anymore Mon Mar 03, 2014 3:12 am | |
| Across the globe, research is revealing a substantial rise in what sociologists term “positive assortative mating”. Translation: getting hitched to someone of similar education, status, and those all-important box-set requirements.
So, where once a secretary might have dreamt of ensnaring her Mad Man, or a Mellors of carrying off a Lady Chatterley, now quacks marry quacks, politicos other politicos, and never the twain shall meet, let alone wed. Why, even the Duchess of Cambridge, the modern rags-to-riches, party-crowns-to-proper-crowns princess, attended the same university as her prince and emerged with the same class of degree – from St Andrews, since celebrated as “Britain’s top match-making university”.
http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/nobody-is-marrying-up-anymore-20140228-33pcb.html |
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