The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind Kearney Melissa S.
The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country's biggest economic problems.In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case…
Specifikacia The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind Kearney Melissa S.
The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country's biggest economic problems.In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case for marriage by showing how the institution's decline has led to a host of economic woes--problems that have fractured American society and rendered vulnerable populations even more vulnerable. Eschewing the religious and values-based arguments that have long dominated this conversation, Kearney shows how the greatest impacts of marriage are, in fact, economic: when two adults marry, their economic and household lives improve, offering a host of benefits not only for the married adults but for their children. Studies show that these effects are today starker, and more unevenly distributed, than ever before. Kearney examines the underlying causes of the marriage decline in