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The Resource Marriage markets : how inequality is remaking the American family, June Carbone and Naomi Cahn

Marriage markets : how inequality is remaking the American family, June Carbone and Naomi Cahn

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  • "There was a time when the phrase "American family" conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.5 kids living comfortable lives in a middle-class suburb. Today, that image has been shattered, due in part to skyrocketing divorce rates, single parenthood, and increased out-of-wedlock births. But whether it is conservatives bewailing the wages of moral decline and women's liberation, or progressives celebrating the result of women's greater freedom and changing sexual mores, most Americans fail to identify the root factor driving the changes: economic inequality that is remaking the American family along class lines. In Marriage Markets, June Carbone and Naomi Cahn, co-authors of the acclaimed Red Families v. Blue Families, examine how macroeconomic forces are transforming our most intimate and important spheres, and how working class and lower income families have paid the highest price".--
  • "Just like health, education, and seemingly every other advantage in life, a stable two-parent home has become a luxury that only the well-off can afford. The best educated and most prosperous have the most stable families, while working class families have seen the greatest increase in relationship instability. Why is this so? This book offers a new answer: it is due to the economics of marriage markets, and of how men and women match up when they search for a life partner. For instance, when eligible (i.e., desirable and marriageable) men outnumber eligible women, the marriage and marital stability rates are significantly higher than when the reverse situation occurs - the exact situation we have in America today. The failure to see marriage as a market affected by supply and demand has obscured any meaningful analysis of the way that societal changes influence culture".--
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eng
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vi, 258 pages
Contents
  • -- Introduction
  • Section I: The Puzzles of Today's Families
  • Chapter 1: Class, Marriage Markets, and the New Foundations for Family Life
  • Chapter 2: Blinded by the Light
  • Chapter 3: Blaming the Victim: The Morality Tale
  • Chapter 4: Getting Closer: The Rediscovery of Marriage Markets
  • Section II: The New Terms
  • Chapter 5: The Heart of the Matter
  • Chapter 6: Where the Men Are
  • Chapter 7: Remaking Class Barriers: Children and Achievement
  • Chapter 8: The Re-creation of Class
  • Section III: Legalizing Inequality: The Class Divide in the Meaning of Family Law
  • Chapter 9: The Law: Rewriting the Marital Script
  • Chapter 10: Shared Parenting: Egalitarian, Patriarchal or Both?
  • Section IV: Rebuilding Community: Inequality, Class, and Family
  • Chapter 11: Rebuilding From the Top Down: The Family, Inequality and Employment
  • Chapter 12: Rebuilding from the Bottom up: Addressing Children's Needs.
  • Chapter 13: Sex, Power, Patriarchy and Parental Obligation
  • Chapter 14: The Death of Family Law
  • and Prospects for its Rebirth
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9780199916580
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Marriage markets : how inequality is remaking the American family
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Marriage markets
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how inequality is remaking the American family
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June Carbone and Naomi Cahn
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Language
eng
Summary
  • "There was a time when the phrase "American family" conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.5 kids living comfortable lives in a middle-class suburb. Today, that image has been shattered, due in part to skyrocketing divorce rates, single parenthood, and increased out-of-wedlock births. But whether it is conservatives bewailing the wages of moral decline and women's liberation, or progressives celebrating the result of women's greater freedom and changing sexual mores, most Americans fail to identify the root factor driving the changes: economic inequality that is remaking the American family along class lines. In Marriage Markets, June Carbone and Naomi Cahn, co-authors of the acclaimed Red Families v. Blue Families, examine how macroeconomic forces are transforming our most intimate and important spheres, and how working class and lower income families have paid the highest price".--
  • "Just like health, education, and seemingly every other advantage in life, a stable two-parent home has become a luxury that only the well-off can afford. The best educated and most prosperous have the most stable families, while working class families have seen the greatest increase in relationship instability. Why is this so? This book offers a new answer: it is due to the economics of marriage markets, and of how men and women match up when they search for a life partner. For instance, when eligible (i.e., desirable and marriageable) men outnumber eligible women, the marriage and marital stability rates are significantly higher than when the reverse situation occurs - the exact situation we have in America today. The failure to see marriage as a market affected by supply and demand has obscured any meaningful analysis of the way that societal changes influence culture".--
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Carbone, June
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306.810973
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non fiction
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Cahn, Naomi R.
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  • Families
  • Marriage
  • Domestic relations
  • Equality
  • Working class
  • Social classes
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Marriage markets : how inequality is remaking the American family, June Carbone and Naomi Cahn
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
-- Introduction -- Section I: The Puzzles of Today's Families -- Chapter 1: Class, Marriage Markets, and the New Foundations for Family Life -- Chapter 2: Blinded by the Light -- Chapter 3: Blaming the Victim: The Morality Tale -- Chapter 4: Getting Closer: The Rediscovery of Marriage Markets -- Section II: The New Terms -- Chapter 5: The Heart of the Matter -- Chapter 6: Where the Men Are -- Chapter 7: Remaking Class Barriers: Children and Achievement -- Chapter 8: The Re-creation of Class -- Section III: Legalizing Inequality: The Class Divide in the Meaning of Family Law -- Chapter 9: The Law: Rewriting the Marital Script -- Chapter 10: Shared Parenting: Egalitarian, Patriarchal or Both? -- Section IV: Rebuilding Community: Inequality, Class, and Family -- Chapter 11: Rebuilding From the Top Down: The Family, Inequality and Employment -- Chapter 12: Rebuilding from the Bottom up: Addressing Children's Needs. -- Chapter 13: Sex, Power, Patriarchy and Parental Obligation -- Chapter 14: The Death of Family Law -- and Prospects for its Rebirth
Control code
FIEb17561176
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
vi, 258 pages
Isbn
9780199916580
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unmediated
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rdamedia.
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(OCoLC)859384221
Label
Marriage markets : how inequality is remaking the American family, June Carbone and Naomi Cahn
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
-- Introduction -- Section I: The Puzzles of Today's Families -- Chapter 1: Class, Marriage Markets, and the New Foundations for Family Life -- Chapter 2: Blinded by the Light -- Chapter 3: Blaming the Victim: The Morality Tale -- Chapter 4: Getting Closer: The Rediscovery of Marriage Markets -- Section II: The New Terms -- Chapter 5: The Heart of the Matter -- Chapter 6: Where the Men Are -- Chapter 7: Remaking Class Barriers: Children and Achievement -- Chapter 8: The Re-creation of Class -- Section III: Legalizing Inequality: The Class Divide in the Meaning of Family Law -- Chapter 9: The Law: Rewriting the Marital Script -- Chapter 10: Shared Parenting: Egalitarian, Patriarchal or Both? -- Section IV: Rebuilding Community: Inequality, Class, and Family -- Chapter 11: Rebuilding From the Top Down: The Family, Inequality and Employment -- Chapter 12: Rebuilding from the Bottom up: Addressing Children's Needs. -- Chapter 13: Sex, Power, Patriarchy and Parental Obligation -- Chapter 14: The Death of Family Law -- and Prospects for its Rebirth
Control code
FIEb17561176
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
vi, 258 pages
Isbn
9780199916580
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
System control number
(OCoLC)859384221

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