The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

by Melissa S. Kearney

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226817784
• ISBN13: 9780226817781
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"