◼ The New York Times is receiving pushback from its constituents for having the audacity to explain that changes in marriage patterns are playing a huge role in the growth of income inequality. - Paul Mirengoff/Powerline
...The recent study on mobility by Pew (pdf)... found, for example, that 54 percent of today’s young adults who grew up in an intact two-parent home in the top-third of household income have remained in the top-third as adults, compared with just 37 percent of today’s young adults who grew up in a wealthy (top-third) but divorced family.
This means that even after one control for income, which tends to be lower in single parent families, children still fare better if their parents stay together. Moreover, according to University of Virginia social scientist W. Bradford Wilcox, other research suggests that the children of never-married single parents tend to do somewhat worse than the children of divorced single parents....
◼ TWO CLASSES DIVIDED BY “I DO” - Paul Mirengoff/Powerline
◼ The NYT article called Two Classes Separated By ‘I Do.’ - Jason DeParle/NYT
◼ New York Times, Stop Moralizing About Single Mothers - Katie Roiphe/Slate
