Take two children, one growing up with married parents in the United States, and one growing up with unmarried parents in Sweden; which child has the higher likelihood of seeing his parents’ relationship break up? Answer: the American kid, because children living with married parents in the United States have a higher probability of experiencing a breakup than do children living with unmarried parents in Sweden. That’s how high our breakup rates are.
Sociologist Andrew Cherlin has a new book called The Marriage-Go-Round. And yet despite the inherent instability our politicians continue to promote the formal legal institution of marriage, rather than addressing family life as it is lived.
The publisher offers an interview of Cherlin here.
Suggested by: New York Times - Freakonomics blog.
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