Marriage and Caste in America : Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age, Hardback Book

Marriage and Caste in America : Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age Hardback

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A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary experiment to redefine marriage.

The results of this experiment separating marriage from childrearing are in, and they are bad news for children and for the country as a whole.

The family upheaval has hit African-Americans especially hard.

We forgot what American marriage was designed to do: it ordered lives by giving the young a meaningful life script.

It supported middle-class foresight, planning, and self-sufficiency. And it organized men and women around The Mission-nurturing their children's cognitive, emotional, and physical development.

It is The Mission that separates middle-class kids from their less-parented and lower-achieving peers.

In fact our great family experiment threatens to turn what the founders imagined as an opportunity-rich republic of equal citizens into a hereditary caste society.

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