419 | Melissa Kearney: Two-Parent Privilege - The Decline of Marriage and the Fracturing of America

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

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🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Melissa Kearney, Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, Director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, and author of The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Melissa discuss how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest economic problems, why there is a growing marriage-gap between college-educated and non-college-educated Americans, the origins of the marriage decline, who shouldn't get married, and whether governmental support can alleviate the disadvantages of growing up in a single-parent household.

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0:00.0	Marshall here, welcome back to the realignment.
0:02.8	A quick note, before I dive in,
0:09.9	Sager and I are going to post our next discussion and Ask Me Anything episode.
0:14.2	This upcoming Sunday will spend a lot of time on Israel and Gaza, but will also answer questions
0:19.1	as well.
0:20.0	To listen to the full episode, go to realignment. supercast.com or click the
0:24.7	link in the show-nups. You can also email us questions and comments to
0:29.2	realignment pod at gmail.com. On to today's episode my guest is a stop getting married and started falling behind. In her telling, declining marriage
0:44.6	rates are driving many of the country's biggest economic problems. She also
0:49.2	notes that there is a increasing divide between who gets married and who doesn't. If you attend
0:55.3	some of higher education you are much more likely to get married than someone who does not.
1:01.1	A increasing diploma divide that we could feel across so many different issues.
1:06.5	Her book has kicked off a lot of controversy with positive and critical coverage across most of the country's
1:12.4	biggest publications.
1:13.6	Agree or disagree, this is kicked off an important debate about the role of
1:17.8	rapidly shifting family structures and social arrangements in our biggest economic
1:22.4	challenges.
1:23.0	A huge thank you to the Foundation for American Innovation,
1:27.0	supporting the work of this podcast, and I just want to emphasize again,
1:30.0	I really recommend this book.
1:31.0	It's not often that you see an econ academic
1:34.5	focused book that is so readable compelling and just really kicks up a debate
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