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September 20, 2023

Mainstream Social Science Awakens to the Importance of the Family

The Two-Parent Privilege breaks a taboo.

In her recent book The Two-Parent Privilege, the economist Melissa Kearney assembles a mass of data supporting a proposition that has long been argued for by right-leaning scholars, and seems self-evident to countless people: that marriage is beneficial to society, and children are better off when raised by a mother and father. Kay Hymowitz observes:

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