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The two-parent privilege : how Americans stopped getting married and started falling behind /

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The new economics of love and marriage and who benefits. The realities of single parenting in the United States 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 United States continue to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kearney, Melissa Schettini, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2023].
Subjects:
Families > Economic aspects > United States.
Marriage > Economic aspects > United States.
Income distribution > United States.
United States > Economic conditions > 21st century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Table of Contents:
  • The elephant in the room
  • Mother-only households
  • 2 > 1
  • Marriageable men (or not)
  • Parenting is hard
  • Boys and dads
  • Declining births
  • Family matters.