Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age

By Kay S. Hymowitz and Kay S. Hymowitz

A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary experiment to redefine marriage. The results of this experiment separating marriage from childrearing are in, and they are bad news for children and for the country as a whole. The family upheaval has hit African-Americans especially hard. We forgot what American marriage was designed to do: it ordered lives by giving the young a meaningful life script. It supported middle-class foresight, planning, and self-sufficiency. And it organized men and women around The Mission-nurturing their children's cognitive, emotional, and physical development. It is The Mission that separates middle-class kids from their less-parented and lower-achieving peers. In fact our great family experiment threatens to turn what the founders imagined as an opportunity-rich republic of equal citizens into a hereditary caste society.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566637538
• ISBN13: 9781566637534
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.2"