E114: Why Our Future Depends On Parents w/ Melissa Kearney

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Lila Rose

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🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Today I sit down with Melissa Kearney, professor of Economics and author of Two Parent Privilege, to discuss the privileges attached to coming from households with two married parents. As the world blames a myriad of issues as the cause of the mess of our culture, Melissa Kearney believes that the most foundational problem lies in the way our society values the stability of family life. We discuss the eye-opening statistics of the differences in outcomes between those who come from intact families and those who don’t, what our government should do to encourage stable marriages, how our communities should support those in tough economic circumstances, and more.

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0:00.0	The first thing we have to do is be willing to acknowledge that families matter,
0:04.1	that what's happened to families in the US has not been good for kids.
0:07.6	There's a lot of resistance to just acknowledging that.
0:10.8	Fundamentally, how kids do in this world is going to come down a lot to the
0:14.7	parents if you just look at the federal budget there is
0:17.9	little dedicated to programs that are aimed at strengthening and supporting stable and healthy families.
0:24.1	We haven't made strengthening families a priority.
0:27.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to the Lila Rose podcast today we're going to be talking
0:34.1	with Melissa Carney who is a professor of economics at the University of Maryland
0:38.6	and the author of the two-parent privilege now we have a very interesting conversation because Melissa lays out
0:45.1	her research about why yes surprise surprise it is best for children to be raised by
0:50.1	married parents in a two-parent household. We talk about the challenges for single parents
0:54.6	and some of the things that we need to do to support single parents.
0:57.4	We talk about the best public policy
0:59.0	and the kind of cultural view that we should have
1:01.8	as a society. Towards the end as a of a society.
1:03.0	Towards the end of the conversation,
1:05.0	we get into a little bit of maybe a disagreement,
1:07.0	which is interesting, where we talk about
1:09.0	if there are differences between mothers raising children
1:12.0	versus fathers and Melissa's research or
1:15.2	opinion on that. So you're going to hear that towards the end. As always I hope
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