Economist Melissa Kearney discussed her new book, 'The Two-Parent Privilege,' on why two married parents provide the best economic futures for children.
It's no surprise that households have changed in the United States in recent decades. As marriage rates have declined, only 63 percent of children in the U.S. are now raised in homes with married parents. That number is even lower among the children of parents who don’t have a four-year college degree, one economist says.
She hopes her book will prompt a cultural discussion in how society can change these trends, at the policy level and elsewhere. 'We should talk about and experiment with and fund programs to try and figure out how to help more adults who have a child together, achieve that family structure for their kids and for themselves. We should be doing that at the same time as we're trying to strengthen the safety net in productive ways and improve schools,' Kearney said.
Marriage doesn't just impact children's happiness; it also is the 'number one predictor of happiness in America today,' according to sociologist Brad Wilcox. 'What we see in the research is that both men and women who are married are almost twice as likely to be happy compared to their fellow Americans who are not married,' he previously told FOX News Digital.
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