{"product_id":"marriage-markets-how-inequality-is-remaking-the-american-family-paperback","title":"Marriage Markets: How Inequality Is Remaking the American Family - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJune Carbone\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMarriage Markets\u003c\/em\u003e, June Carbone and Naomi Cahn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy is this so? The book provides the answer: greater economic inequality has profoundly changed marriage markets, the way men and women match up when they search for a life partner. It has produced a larger group of high-income men than women; written off the men at the bottom because of chronic unemployment, incarceration, and substance abuse; and left a larger group of women with a smaller group of comparable men in the middle. 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. Only policies that redress the balance between men and women through greater access to education, stable employment, and opportunities for social mobility can produce a culture that encourages commitment and investment in family life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA rigorous and enlightening account of why American families have changed so much in recent decades, \u003cem\u003eMarriage Markets\u003c\/em\u003e cuts through the ideological and moralistic rhetoric that drives our current debate. It offers critically needed solutions for a problem that will haunt America for generations to come.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJune Carbone\u003c\/strong\u003e is the inaugural holder of the Robina Chair of Law, Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eFrom Partners to Parents: The Second Revolution in Family Law\u003c\/em\u003e, the third and fourth editions of \u003cem\u003eFamily Law \u003c\/em\u003ewith Leslie Harris and the late Lee Teitelbaum, and \u003cem\u003eRed Families v. Blue Families\u003c\/em\u003e with Naomi Cahn. She is also a member of the Yale Cultural Cognition Project. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNaomi Cahn\u003c\/strong\u003e, the Harold H. Greene Professor at George Washington University Law School, has written numerous articles and several books in a variety of areas. With June Carbone, she has also co-authored \u003cem\u003eRed Families v. Blue Families\u003c\/em\u003e. Other books include: \u003cem\u003eFinding Our Families\u003c\/em\u003e (with Wendy Kramer); \u003cem\u003eThe New Kinship: Constructing Donor-Conceived Families\u003c\/em\u003e; and co-authored casebooks in family law and trusts and estates. She is a Senior Fellow at the Donaldson Adoption Institute, a board member for the Donor Sibling Registry, and a member of the GW Global Gender Program advisory board.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759144501536,"sku":"9780190263317","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e02d7bd070c23a8cf589f053e2e66d19.webp?v=1780143418","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/marriage-markets-how-inequality-is-remaking-the-american-family-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}