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The two-parent privilege : how the decline in marriage has increased inequality and lowered social mobility, and what we can do about it

Kearney, Melissa Schettini, 1974-2023

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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.