Marriage and Caste in America Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age

by Hymowitz, Kay S.

• ISBN13: 9781566637534
• ISBN10: 1566637538
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-19
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

Summary

The results of the American experiment to separate marriage from childrearing are in, and they turn out to be bad news for children and for the country as a whole. As Kay S. Hymowitz argues in Marriage and Caste in America, the family revolution has played a central role in a growing inequality and high rates of poverty, even during economic good times and especially among African Americans. While for decades feminists and academics toyed with the myth of the strong single black mother supported by kinship networks, black men drifted into fatherhood without being husbands, without even becoming part of a family, while black children were left behind.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 3
Marriage and Caste	p. 15
What American Marriage Does	p. 31
The Black Family: Forty-plus Years of Lies	p. 51
The Missionary Position	p. 72
Dads in the 'Hood	p. 89
The Teen Mommy Track	p. 108
The End of Herstory	p. 126
It's Morning After in America	p. 147
Index	p. 169
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