James Sexton
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They're saying, well, don't you know that those women contribute?
Of course I know those women contribute.
I've made those arguments.
Some of those women are my clients.
So of course I get that.
But I also get the other side of that argument as well.
I think the truth of marriage statistics is...
people who have a college education, it's usually a sign of other things like they're, you know, again, the substance use disorder rates related to a person who has a college education and doesn't.
This is not a function of the fact that they had a good liberal arts education.
This is a function of the fact that this is a person who probably had the economic stability that they could go to college in the present climate.
You know, again, it's not
You know, it's not your story of a person who could get into a state school and could do that.
I went to a state school in New Jersey.
I went to Ramapo College of New Jersey.
And they asked me about 10 years ago to come back and to speak at an open house.
And, you know, I was very effusive about the fact that, hey, I didn't have good SAT scores.
I was a really unambitious, bad student.
I had long hair and a bad attitude.
And I said, you know, this is a school that took a chance on me.
And I'm so grateful of the fact that I moved on to become someone very successful.