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“Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.”

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As an overly confident college freshman, the first time I received a below-average score on an exam was a needed wake-up call.

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For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors…

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A primary motivation for introducing no-fault divorce was, in fact, to reduce perjury in the legal system.

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Graduating from high school is certainly a good idea, but it's no longer much protection against poverty.

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Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with…

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Investing in living-wage jobs and reducing the inequities between local school districts would give young people more, not less, incentive to postpone childbearing and…

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Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement.

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Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women.

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When I speak on work-family issues to audiences around the country, some of the biggest complaints I hear come from individuals who are described…

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Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to…

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Unilateral divorce has decreased the bargaining power of the person who wants the marriage to last and has not engaged in behavior that meets…

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The closer we get to achieving equality of opportunity between the sexes, the more clearly we can see that the next major obstacle to…

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Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages…

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Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

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