1. The main purpose of this article is Identify how certain factors such as education, faith can affect the probabilities of getting married.
The article exposed how Latin man can last longer in married that black men or non white man, in other hand, white women can have marries that last 10 years or more.
Education it is also a factor when it comes to married. More that 60 percent of people with a college degree were married.
Religion it is also a variable, people who truly practiced their religion would most likely to be married, 55% of white man who said religion was important were married.
Racial and ethnic also gave a probability about marriage; forty-four percent of white men were married, compared with 43 percent of Hispanics, and 32 percent of non Hispanic blacks.
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The key question that the author is addressing is Can faith and education be linked with marriage?
3. The most important information in this article is the possibilities of getting marries may vary on the education level, religion or just the ethnic. Women and men assumed different roles that can determinate how the relation will change, either by living together or taking legal vows. .
4. The main inferences/conclusions in this article are “Cohabitation usually resulted in marriage: by the fifth year, 65 percent of people in their first cohabitation had married.
About two-thirds of marriages lasted longer than 10 years, with differences by sex and race. Black women were less likely than white and Hispanic women to be married 10 or more years, but Hispanic men were more likely than non-Hispanic black or white men to have marriages that lasted that long” 5. The key concept(s) we need to understand in this article is (are) Religion and marriage high education and married and how does these influence on lasting longer.
6. The main assumptions(s) underlying the author’s thinking is (are) several factor can impact on the percentage of successful marriage and how long they