Melissa Kearney's 2023 argument — that growing up in a two-parent household significantly improves children's economic outcomes and that the decline of two-parent families, particularly among less-educated Americans, is a primary driver of economic inequality.
Creates the two-parent household economic inequality argument — The Two-Parent Privilege marshals economic data to argue that the causal pathway from single-parent households to worse child outcomes is strong enough that family structure must be part of any serious inequality discussion.
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