Marriage Markets: How Inequality Is Remaking the American Family

by Naomi R. Cahn and June Carbone

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190263318
• ISBN13: 9780190263317
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"