TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kearney,Melissa Schettini
TI  - The two-parent privilege: how Americans stopped getting married and started falling behind 
SN  - 0226817784
AV  - HQ536 .K36 2023
U1  - 306.850973 23/eng/20230206
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Chicago, IL, London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Families
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Income distribution
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface -- The elephant in the room -- Mother-only households -- 2 > 1 -- Marriageable men (or not) -- Parenting is hard -- Boys and dads -- Declining births -- Family matters
N2  - "The new economics of love and marriage-and who benefits. The realities of single parenting in the US have long carried a connotation of hardship-not just in finances, but in the wrenching day-to-day challenges of parenting without a net. As marriage rates in the US continue to drop, and as single-parent households become increasingly concentrated at the lower end of the income spectrum, it begs the question: what does all this mean for a country and a society already dogged by inequality and the weight of racial discrimination? The Two-Parent Privilege examines the emerging role of marriage in the United States. Weaving data and observations drawn from across the social sciences, economist Melissa Kearney explores how the concentration of marriage among the affluent has made the institution of marriage itself a propagator of American inequality--one that may signal the end of American economic mobility. Kearney's work is a trenchant, sometimes uncomfortable, but deeply necessary critical look at how the makeup of our households are charting our path ahead"--
ER  -