Marriage Markets How Inequality Is Remaking the American Family

Name: Marriage Markets How Inequality Is Remaking the American Family
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ISBN: 9780190263317

ISBN-10: 0190263318

ISBN-13: 9780190263317

Edition: 2015

Authors: June Carbone, Naomi Cahn

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There was a time when the phrase "American family" conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.5 kids living comfortable lives in a middle-class suburb. Today, that image has been shattered, due in part to skyrocketing divorce rates, single parenthood, and increased out-of-wedlock births. But whether it is conservatives bewailing the wages of moral decline and women's liberation, or progressives celebrating the result of women's greater freedom and changing sexual mores, most Americans fail to identify the root factor driving the changes: economic inequality that is remaking the American family along class lines.In Marriage Markets, June Carbone and…

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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/1/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.54" wide x 9.21" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Naomi Cahn is John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. Her previous books include Red Families v. Blue Families, Test Tube Families (NYU Press 2009), Families By Law: An Adoption Reader (NYU Press 2004), and Confinements: Fertility and Infertility in Contemporary Culture .