The Two-Parent Privilege av Melissa S. Kearney

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<p>In <em>The Two-Parent Privilege</em>, 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.</p><p>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 at the higher end of the socioeconomic scale, increasingly rare among almost everyone else ¿ functions as an economic vehicle that advantages some children over others. As these trends of marriage and class continue, the com