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

Kay S. Hymowitz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566637090 ISBN 13: 9781566637091

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, 2006

Synopsis

Arguing on the results of the experiment separating marriage from childrearing, this book says that they turn out to be bad news not only for children, but also for the country. It shows that the 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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Review:

Hymowitz provides an arresting diagnosis of American social ills.--Cheryl Miller "The American Conservative "

[A] fascinating and informational [book] that you ought to read.--Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Kay Hymowitz makes a persuasive case in Marriage and Caste in America that the best social program is actually marriage.--David Forsmark "Front Page Magazine "

The most fascinating (but grimmest) sections...deal with child-rearing skills in unmarried America.--Charlotte Hays "The Wall Street Journal "

A short and readable volume.... Hymowitz has surely contributed...to creating the present hopeful moment for mainstream America.--Claudia Anderson "The Weekly Standard "

Essential.--David Brooks "The New York Times "

Powerful...unflinching...analysis of this crisis of the black abandonment of marriage.--Gregory J. Sullivan "Evening Bulletin "

Beautifully written tour de force of contemporary American family life.--W Bradford Wilcox, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and fellow of the Witherspoon Institute "First Things "

Hymowitz has the gift of being able to convey complicated ideas, theories, and history in lucid and witty language.--Lisa Schiffren "COMMENTARY "

A sobering investigation of the widening gap in the American social structure that's being caused by new attitudes toward marriage.--Ron Haskins, Brookings Institution

About the Author:

Kay S. Hymowitz is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor at "City Journal, " and an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values. She holds degrees from Brandeis, Tufts, and Columbia Universities, and her articles have appeared in "The New Republic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, " and numerous other publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and three children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1566637090
• ISBN 13: 9781566637091
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192