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Marriage and Caste in America
Kay S. Hymowitz
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Description for Marriage and Caste in America
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 367.
A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary experiment to redefine marriage. The results of this experiment separating marriage from childrearing are in, and they are bad news for children and for the country as a whole. The family upheaval has hit African-Americans especially hard. We forgot what American marriage was designed to do: it ordered lives by giving the young a meaningful life script. It supported middle-class foresight, planning, and self-sufficiency. And it organized men and women around The Mission—nurturing their children's cognitive, emotional, and physical development. It is The Mission that separates middle-class kids from their less-parented and lower-achieving peers. In fact our great family experiment threatens to turn what the founders imagined as an opportunity-rich republic of equal citizens into a hereditary caste society.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566637091
SKU
V9781566637091
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Reviews for Marriage and Caste in America
Kay Hymowitz thoughtfully takes on the minimalists who say a marriage is just a shack-up plus a piece of paper. Her elegant essays show that marriage is an essential culture-preserver, poverty-fighter, and life-improver.
Marvin Olasky, editor–in–chief, World News Group
WORLD
America could save itself a lot of trouble by paying attention to what [Hymowitz] writes.
Theodore Dalrymple, author of Our Culture, What’s Left of It 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 The most fascinating (but grimmest) sections...deal with child-rearing skills in unmarried America.
Charlotte Hays
The Wall Street Journal
Marriage and Caste in America should provoke serious thought about how marriage has become a class issue—and what we can do about it.
Christine B. Whelan
New York Post
Essential.
David Brooks
The New York Times
Hymowitz...has concluded that the family revolution [is both] bad news for children [and] has had the effect of stratifying the country as a whole.
Steve Goddard's History Wire
Hymowitz provides an arresting diagnosis of American social ills.
Cheryl Miller
The American Conservative
Hymowitz has the gift of being able to convey complicated ideas, theories, and history in lucid and witty language.
Lisa Schiffren
COMMENTARY
A strong case for the value of marriage.
Today's Machine World
A short and readable volume.... Hymowitz has surely contributed...to creating the present hopeful moment for mainstream America.
Claudia Anderson
The Weekly Standard
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 author] has the gift of being able to convey complicated ideas, theories, and history in language that is lucid and-most precious of all in discussions of marriage and family-witty. It is a pleasure to read her essays....an intelligent, compelling case....Clear and forceful conclusions about what is missing from the impoverished lives that she describes so well.
Book Review Digest
Hymowitz cogently lays out a case that when it comes to reducing poverty, economics and family structure can't be separated.
Newsobserver.Com
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
Powerful...unflinching...analysis of this crisis of the black abandonment of marriage.
Gregory J. Sullivan
Evening Bulletin
[A] fascinating and informational [book] that you ought to read.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Marvin Olasky, editor–in–chief, World News Group
WORLD
America could save itself a lot of trouble by paying attention to what [Hymowitz] writes.
Theodore Dalrymple, author of Our Culture, What’s Left of It 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 The most fascinating (but grimmest) sections...deal with child-rearing skills in unmarried America.
Charlotte Hays
The Wall Street Journal
Marriage and Caste in America should provoke serious thought about how marriage has become a class issue—and what we can do about it.
Christine B. Whelan
New York Post
Essential.
David Brooks
The New York Times
Hymowitz...has concluded that the family revolution [is both] bad news for children [and] has had the effect of stratifying the country as a whole.
Steve Goddard's History Wire
Hymowitz provides an arresting diagnosis of American social ills.
Cheryl Miller
The American Conservative
Hymowitz has the gift of being able to convey complicated ideas, theories, and history in lucid and witty language.
Lisa Schiffren
COMMENTARY
A strong case for the value of marriage.
Today's Machine World
A short and readable volume.... Hymowitz has surely contributed...to creating the present hopeful moment for mainstream America.
Claudia Anderson
The Weekly Standard
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 author] has the gift of being able to convey complicated ideas, theories, and history in language that is lucid and-most precious of all in discussions of marriage and family-witty. It is a pleasure to read her essays....an intelligent, compelling case....Clear and forceful conclusions about what is missing from the impoverished lives that she describes so well.
Book Review Digest
Hymowitz cogently lays out a case that when it comes to reducing poverty, economics and family structure can't be separated.
Newsobserver.Com
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
Powerful...unflinching...analysis of this crisis of the black abandonment of marriage.
Gregory J. Sullivan
Evening Bulletin
[A] fascinating and informational [book] that you ought to read.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger