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Melissa Kearney is an economist at the University of Maryland and she has a new book called

the Two-parent Privilege how Americans stop getting married and started falling

behind. I've read a number of interviews with Kearney because the topic is obviously in my

wheelhouse and I plan to read the book but I haven't yet but last weekend Barry

Weiss interviewed Kearney at Free Press and one thing she said really stuck out to me.

Kearney said and this is a quote that in survey evidence you don't see widespread

rejection of marriage as an institution you don't see in the US that there's been a

widespread move away from the desire to get married. Rather, it feels like

achieving a stable married home is a bit of a luxury good.

It's something that's harder for people

without higher levels of education and income to achieve.

So for that reason, we should not be okay

with that advantageous institution

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