The Deseret Morning News has just published an article about a newly-released Pew Research Survey, which shows that Americans think equality in marriage, such as sharing household chores, is more important than having kids. Media link:

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,680195432,00.html

Key to good marriage: not kids?

Survey shows major shift in attitudes since 1990

By David Crary
Associated Press

NEW YORK — The percentage of Americans who consider children "very important" to a successful marriage has dropped sharply since 1990, and more now cite the sharing of household chores as pivotal, according to a sweeping new survey.

The Pew Research Center survey on marriage and parenting found that children had fallen to eighth out of nine on a list of factors that people associate with successful marriages — well behind "sharing household chores," "good housing," "adequate income," a "happy sexual relationship" and "faithfulness."

In a 1990 World Values Survey, children ranked third in importance among the same items, with 65 percent saying children were very important to a good marriage. Just 41 percent said so in the new Pew survey.

Chore-sharing was cited as very important by 62 percent of respondents, up from 47 percent in 1990.

The survey also found that, by a margin of nearly 3-to-1, Americans say the main purpose of marriage is the "mutual happiness and fulfillment" of adults rather than the "bearing and raising of children."

The survey's findings buttress concerns expressed by numerous scholars and family-policy experts, among them Barbara Dafoe Whitehead of Rutgers University's National Marriage Project.

"The popular culture is increasingly oriented to fulfilling the X-rated fantasies and desires of adults," she wrote in a recent report. "Child-rearing values — sacrifice, stability, dependability, maturity — seem stale and musty by comparison."

{snip}

Breaking down the responses, the survey found some predictable patterns — Republicans and older people were more likely to give conservative answers than Democrats and younger adults. But the patterns in regard to race and ethnicity were more complex.

For example, census statistics show that blacks and Hispanic are more likely than whites to bear children out of wedlock. Yet according to the survey, these minority groups are more inclined than whites to place a high value on the importance of children to a successful marriage.

The survey found that more than 80 percent of white adults have been married, compared with about 70 percent of Hispanics and 54 percent of blacks. Yet blacks were more likely than whites and Hispanics to say that premarital sex is always or almost always morally wrong.

Among those who have never been married, blacks (38 percent) and whites (34 percent) were more likely than Hispanics (23 percent) to have been divorced.

Delving into one of the nation's most divisive social issues, the survey found that 57 percent of public opposes allowing gays and lesbians to marry. However, opinion was almost evenly divided on support for civil unions that would give same-sex couples many of the same rights as married couples.

Asked about the trend of more same-sex couples raising children, 50 percent said this is bad for society, 11 percent said it is good, and 34 percent said it made little difference.

The Pew Research Center's own summary of the survey can be viewed at the following link:

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/526/marriage-parenthood

Their complete 91-page report, in PDF format, can be viewed at the following link:

http://pewresearch.org/assets/social/pdf/Marriage.pdf

Once one factors in the disparity in racial responses, this survey seems to mirror the decrease in the number of Whites having children. It also confirms that Blacks and Latinos are still more likely to have kids out of wedlock than Whites, as well as the fact that Blacks and Latinos are likely to have more children, period. We are still being outbred.

The survey alludes to the popular culture as a contributing factor. Who dominates the media and the popular culture behind the scenes? The Jew. This is why, for the benefit of newcomers to this forum as well as lurkers, the Jew is just as significant as the non-white. While the non-white does his work in the open, to which millions of White crime victims can attest, the Jew does his work behind the scenes, setting the races at loggerheads against one another and promoting extreme deviations to undermine and destabilize our culture and the foundations of civil society.

The survey fails to mention the deleterious effects of feminism. Feminism is divisive, corrosive, inherently anti-male, blaming men for all the sins of the universe, past, present and future. Feminism transforms men and women from being equally (and delightfully) different into nothing more than interchangeable parts. Gender reversal is not unknown - that's why at gay pride parades, fags dress like women and dykes dress like men. No man who values his marriage (and who wants his wife to continue rendering "due benevolence" unto him) will sit on his duff chugging an ice-cold beer while his wife slaves away with the household chores. Most men will do the right thing. Feminism doesn't stop male chauvinism - it merely substitutes female chauvinism.