外国人最想和你聊的文化话题：丁克一族

　Realize DINK Fashion　认识丁克潮流

     1　为什么有如此多的丁克家庭？
     Mr. Buchanan lists six factors that contribute to the DINK lifestyle and explain why today's culture mocks "the old idea that the good life for a woman means a husband and a houseful of kids." He says that powerful collateral forces are "pulling American women away from the maternity ward forever." Here are the six factors:
     1. The new economy. Industry offers pay and benefits to lure talented women who compete with men in the marketplace. Many choose careers or one-time motherhood and love the work challenge. They stay. With women working, poor families get richer and begin to downsize. And as nations get richer, history shows, they begin to die. Meanwhile, poor families are growing. Jesus said, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." (Mt. 5:5 KJV)
     2. End of the "family wage". As women's pay soared, men's dropped, and marriage and family size suffered. Young men earned too little for marriage and a family. Young women found independence and delayed marriage, or just didn't marry at all. Some settled for the DINK role and the end of the "family wage" was a factor.
     3. The "population bomb" hysteria. Heading up another of his Chicken Little operations was former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara, the man who micromanaged the Vietnam War into disaster. This time, he was warning that population growth would cause poverty, crowding and frustration that would threaten social, economic and military stability. And this time he was wrong again, as the poor continued to multiply.
     4. Feminism. "Women's liberation" has become the rage. It would free women of their roles of wife, mother and homemaker. Feminists have had successes: a tenfold increase in unmarried couples living together since 1970. Husband-wife families are now only one in four. Singles living alone are now 26 percent of the adult population.
     5. The popular culture puts the joys of sex far above the happiness of motherhood. Indeed, sex, career and the single woman dominate in advertising and entertainment. Marriage and family are downplayed, and the DINKs are helping.
     6. The collapse of the moral order. Today, "shacking up" is just a"relationship", half of all marriages end in divorce, and abortion is a"fallback" position and women will vote against any politician or party that threatens to take it away.
     2　丁克派生词汇的表达方式
     Whit DINK/ pseudo dink（白丁）: Once aspiring to be a dink, but after a certain age, they regret and give birth to a baby. This kind of man is often called pseudo dink, or "White DINK".
     Dinking（丁克进行时）: It refers to those people who still insist on dink.
     Dinked: "forced" dink（被迫丁克）-a dink family which actually really hopes that they can have children, but because of the infertility, economic difficulties, they are forced not to give birth to a kid, suffering from knee without son. This is not true dink.
     Dinkwad（丁宠）: They are a bunch of people having vowed to put a dink to develop acme state who married and both parties do not raise children but pets. They are dink family of the highest level, so also someone called hardcore dink.
     Iron DINK（铁丁）: Firmly dink consistent of iron heart, namely determination.
     丁克：亦即DINK，是英语Double Incomes No Kids的缩写，直译过来就是有双份的收入而没有孩子的家庭，说白了就是两个人吃饱了全家不饿的一种组合。据说一些汉语词典已经吸纳了这个外来的名词。这些词汇有："白丁"，意思就是"白白地丁克了一回"；丁克ing：仍然在坚持丁克的人；丁克ed："被迫"丁克；丁宠指结婚双方改养小孩为养宠物。他们是丁克的最高级别，因此也有人称之为骨灰级丁克；铁丁：斩钉截铁的丁克。