The True Cost of Family Breakdown - Melissa Kearney

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🗓️ 4 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Melissa Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. A research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), she is also director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group. Dr Kearney's research focuses on issues related to social policy, poverty, and inequality and she has published numerous academic studies related to the economics of families and childbearing. She is the author of, ‘The Two-Parent Privilege: How the decline in marriage has increased inequality and lowered social mobility, and what we can do about it’ - available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C76N6NN1/ Follow Melissa on X: https://x.com/kearney_melissa Sponsor: Start earning A Yield on Silver, Paid in Silver with Monetary Metals. Click here to find out more: https://bit.ly/3Rs8Rv2 Join our Premium Membership for early access, extended and ad-free content: https://triggernometry.supercast.com OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | [email protected] | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/#mailinglist Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:22.2	Kids who are growing up in a single mother home in the US.
0:25.0	They are five times more likely to live in poverty
0:27.0	than kids growing up in a married parent home.
0:29.0	Kids growing up with a single dad are three times more likely.
0:32.0	And why is it that this is... up with a single dad are three times more likely.
0:32.8	And why is it that this is controversial?
0:36.1	That this is suddenly taboo to talk about it?
0:38.5	Because it sounds like you're saying the one parent is the problem,
0:41.5	when in most cases that one parent is the kid's greatest asset.
0:46.4	Can we just talk about this the way we talk about other gaps in society, just with data,
0:50.9	just with evidence, coming it from empathy. You can't pretend that this is a feminist success story.
0:56.8	This is not a feminist success story.
1:00.8	Melissa, welcome to the show. It's great to have you on. You wrote a book called The Two Parent Privilege. Very controversial idea. The two parents are better than one.
1:10.0	Welcome to the show. You're actually an economist obviously and you did a lot of research and the data behind what you're talking about be fascinating for us to talk about.
1:19.0	Before we get into that, just tell us a little bit about, you you know what is the state of the family in
1:24.1	in the US yeah well first thanks for having me on the show it's great to be with you both
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