The bad rap that so-called single parents receive for raising children without both parents in the household, remains unfair. When will the finger pointing end?
The latest attack comes from Melissa S. Kearney, an economics professor, University of Maryland, who is touting her upcoming book, the forthcoming book “The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind.”
She advocates for an increase in two-parent, married families or society will continue to face “dire” consequences. In her words:
“Their effects include not just children’s behavioral and educational outcomes, but a surprisingly devastating effect on adult men, whose role in the workforce and society appears intractably damaged by the emerging economics of America’s new social norms.”
While her book makes factual, day-to-day economics points about the gap between single parent household families vs. two-income or married parent families in income and related advantages, the unfortunate and untrue statements about behavioral, academic and other traceable factors, are severely flawed. It leads to the return of the never-ending and total judging refrains that one parent leading the household is dooming societal advancements…
