Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age


 

Publication Date: March 2007

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Kay S. Hymowitz

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Family; age

Type: Speech

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The lack of clarity and cultural consensus about the decline of American marriage is dangerous. Erasing the bond between marriage and child rearing leads to a weakening of our country's ability to carry out its promise: its promise of fairness, equality, opportunity, and prosperity. Instead, the result is separate and unequal families as far as the eye can see.