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 …

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 …

Five decades ago, I was challenged to read the Moynihan Report (1965). Then and now, I
take issue with much of the content, which smacks of deficit thinking, blaming the victim, and …

For understandable reasons, the marriage debate in this country has concentrated on the
welfare of children. When mothers and fathers do not get and stay married, children are at …

Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and
many are unplanned. The result is increased poverty and inequality for children. The left …

" This is the most important study ever written on motherhood and marriage among low-
income urban women. Edin and Kefalas's timely, engaging, and well-written book is a …

This is a review of the book," Halving It All: How Equally Shared Parenting Works"(see
record 1999-02127-000). The explicit message in Halving it All is that equally shared …

Nonwhite and white, rich and poor, born to an unwed mother or weathering divorce, over
half of all children in the current generation will live in a single-parent family--and these …

Over the past four decades, the American family has undergone a radical transformation.
Skyrocketing rates of divorce, single parenthood, and couples with children out of wedlock …

The family is our haven, the place where we all start off on equal footing—or so we like to
think. But if that's the case, why do so many siblings often diverge widely in social status …