Talk:Social mobility

"Again, for upper class-daughters, who were mainly restricted to marrying in order to maintain their social status or to move either up- or downwards, it was nothing unusual to be married to middle class-men, such as merchants": as far as I know this was highly uncommon, as the status was transferred from the husband to the wife. Thus, marrying a man from the middle-classes would be seen as marrying downward. Please give proof for this statement.