It's March 22nd. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, gentlemen welcome to the right report your daily news

podcast yesterday I interviewed Melissa Carney.

She is the author of a book called The Two-Parent Privilege.

I wish I had the audio of that conversation.

Gosh, it was so great.

Unfortunately, I don't. My sound

engineers were unable to capture it in a usable form regrettably. But I do want to

provide you with a glimpse into the conversation because it was so great.

So let me share this with you.

A startling fact that America has more single parents than any other country in the world. But as Ms. Carney shared, it wasn't always that way. Back in

the early 1960s, single parenthood was a rarity in this country, but over the next 60 years,

obviously that changed.

And it changed for a number of reasons, as you would imagine.

Ms. Carney's scholarship, though, focused on two things.

First, she found that there was a new social norm where our society back in the

1960s and 70s especially started to accept that having children out of

wedlock was either fine or even good and so young women and men did

either on purpose or by accident and the data are very clear on that happening in

those decades.

Second, working class men started to struggle to earn enough money to either raise a family or remain in one.

In other words, they didn't have them to start with or they ended up getting divorced.

Melissa offered that the economic struggle that these guys were going through was partly because of things like

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