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“Marriage is no longer the only place where people make major life transitions and decisions, enter into commitments, or incur obligations.”

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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 in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family,…

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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 the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the…

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