Tucker Carlson: “Women do not want to marry men who make less than they do…”

“First of all, we don't need any because we just know our lived experiences. But there's a lot of study on this, if you're interested. I happen to be. Women do not want to marry men who make less than they do, period. In any society in which that becomes the case, you find marriage dropping off a cliff. That's what happened in black America. Black people used to be married like everybody else.” (1:29:22–1:29:27)

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