You 2.0: When Did Marriage Become So Hard?
Hidden Brain
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The New Jane Austen Model of Marriage
By the second half of the nineteenth century, jane austen model of marriage had taken firm hold in the united states. The idea of marrying for anything other than love came to be seen as old fashioned. In practice, this dovetailed with a changing economic landscape in the country, where men increasingly became bread winners and women became home makers.
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