Her marriage pushed her into the middle class because it gave her social capital. Isabel Wilkerson defines social capital as follows: “Social capital usually means emotional support and encouragement from a reliable actor in one's life, a commodity commonly associated with marriage that is itself a form of wealth” (320). In essence, social capital is necessary to overcome poverty and enter a new class. The best way to get this marriage of vital ingredients. Of all women who marry, 56% enter the middle class (a very good percentage), but only 1.4% of all poverty-stricken women marry (231). Wilkerson notes this about the small number of actual marriages: “'Why do we think promoting marriage will solve the problem when there are so few men to marry?' asked William Julius Wilson, professor of sociology and social policy at Harvard. “we must find ways to duplicate the kind of support that comes from an encouraging partner” (231). Basically the best way out of poverty is one of the least likely because all men are idiots. Nothing can replace marriage, but there are other ways to increase sociability