![]() The family revolution has played a central role in a growing inequality and high rates of poverty, even during economic good times. Now, as Kay Hymowitz argues in Marriage and Caste in America, the results of this experiment separating marriage from childrearing are in, and they turn out to be bad news not only for children but also, in ways little understood, for the country as a whole. Where historically men and women had sought a loving bond, largely centered on the rearing of children, the new arrangement called for an intimate-and provisional-union of two adults. A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary experiment to redefine marriage.
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