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Title: Enduring Bonds: Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else That Makes Families Great and Terrible
Citation Type: Book, Whole
Publication Year: 2018
ISBN: 9780520292383
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Abstract: I started writing my blog, Family Inequality, in 2009. My purpose was to engage with people around the social trends and events that were dramatically shifting the landscape in which I worked. These were stark: Economic inequality increased, with those at the top pulling away from everyone else and progress stagnating or worse in the middle. Marriage rates fell and the proportion of children born to parents who weren't married rose. And inequality in access to marriage ramped up, in particular the gap in marriage rates between rich and poor, and between Black and White. These three trends are all interconnected, and each became a part of the cultural and political debates of the day on everything from parenting styles and poverty rates to election demographics and the future of economic growth. Then, in 2012, same-sex marriage erupted into academic sociology with the publication of an incendiary study claiming children were worse off if their parents were gay or lesbian-just as the issue was working its way toward the Supreme Court. This raised the possibility that social science, wielded by religious conservatives for political ends, would derail the very visible progress toward a possible breakthrough in equality for gay and lesbian couples. Most of us who had already been arguing about...
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Authors: Cohen, Phillip N.
Publisher: University of California Press
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Topics: Family and Marriage
Countries: United States