Or would it be better for those married elites to say that marriage is better economically and as an environment to bring up children, whatever level of resources you have? We do tend to say it’s a good idea to try and live within your means and save money for a rainy day, even if that’s difficult or impossible for those with lesser resources.
And yet in the past those who didn’t possess wealth still got married. Do you think the poor have a vaster number of issues affecting them than they did 50 or 100 years ago? Isn’t the main difference that societal attitudes have changed? Many of those changes have created new opportunities and made many people’s lives better, but its hard to argue that they haven’t also affected attitudes to marriage.