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Melissa S. Kearney

The Two-Parent Privilege

How the decline in marriage has increased inequality and lowered social mobility, and what we...

Melissa S. Kearney

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English
Swift Press
21 September 2023
Society & culture: general; Sociology: family & relationships
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. 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.

Based on more than a decade of economic research, including her original work, Kearney shows that a household that includes two married parents - holding steady among upper-class adults, increasingly rare among most everyone else - functions as an economic vehicle that advantages some children over others. As these trends of marriage and class continue, the compounding effects on inequality and opportunity grow increasingly dire. Their effects include not just children's behavioural and educational outcomes, but a surprisingly devastating effect on adult men, whose role in the workforce and society appears intractably damaged by the emerging economics of our new social norms.

For many, the two-parent home may be an old-fashioned symbol of a vanished way of life. But The Two-Parent Privilege makes it clear that marriage, for all its challenges and faults, may be our best path to a more equitable future. By confronting the critical role that family makeup plays in shaping children's lives and futures, Kearney offers a critical assessment of what a decline in marriage means for an economy and a society - and what we must do to change course.
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Imprint:   Swift Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 153mm, 
ISBN:   9781800753747
ISBN 10:   1800753748
Pages:   228
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Melissa S. Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, Director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Reviews for The Two-Parent Privilege: How the decline in marriage has increased inequality and lowered social mobility, and what we can do about it

'The failure to speak honestly about how the decline in marriage is affecting both children and the nation is an issue Kearney addresses forthrightly in this fabulous book. Her analysis is trenchant, her common sense shines through, and her writing excels. This book may spark controversy, but in my view, it is right on the mark’ - Isabel Sawhill, senior fellow, Brookings Institution and author of Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage


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