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    • A Driver of Inequality Not Enough People are Talking About, The Atlantic Online, Sept. 18, 2023

    • The Explosive Rise of Single-Parent Families Is Not a Good Thing, New York Times, Sept. 17, 2023

    • The U.S. Economy Needs More Two Parent Families, Time, Sept. 28, 2023

    • Vega, Tanzina, "What Do Single Mothers Really Need? Hint: It Isn’t Marriage", The Boston Globe, Oct. 28, 2023

    • Mead, Rebecca, "Why We Need to Talk About Marriage", The New Yorker, Oct. 23, 2023

    • Parks, Kristine, "Economist Makes Data-Driven Case for Stable Two-Parent Households: 'It's Clear that Kids Benefit'", Fox New Online, Oct. 22, 2023

    • Gogoi, Pallavi, "Why Children of Married Parents Do Better, but America is Moving the Other Way", NPR, Oct. 22, 2023

    • Yglesias, Matt, "A Conversation About Two-Parent Privilege", Slow Boring, Oct. 19, 2023

    • Strain, Michael R., Harry J. Holzer, "What Poor Children Need", Project Syndicate, Oct. 17, 2023

    • Rothfeld, Becca, "‘The Two-Parent Privilege’ Gets Caught in the Trap of Convention", The Washington Post, Oct. 14, 2023

    • Galant, Richard, "Trump and the Upside-Down World," CNN Online, Oct. 2, 2023

    • Wilcox, Brad, David Bass, "Growing Up in Intact Families Matters More Than Ever", National Review, Oct. 1, 2023

    • Douthat, Ross, "How Many Americans Are Marriage Material?", The New York Times, Sept. 29, 2023

    • Filipovic, Jill, "The Problem With All This Talk About Two-Parent ‘Privilege’", CNN Online, Sept. 28, 2023

    • Emba, Christine, "Single Moms Know Marriage Would be Ideal, But How Do They Get One?", The Washington Post, Sept. 28, 2023

    • Berbernes, Mike, "Why Experts Say Two-Parent Families Are the Key to Fighting Inequality", Yahoo! News, Sept. 26, 2023

    • Robinson, Nathan J., "Why the Problem Isn’t Single-Parent Families", Current Affairs, Sept. 25, 2023

    • Luca, Michael, "‘The Two-Parent Privilege’ Review: Where Have All the Good Men Gone?", The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 24, 2023

    • Traister, Rebecca, "The Return of the Marriage Plot", The Cut, Sept. 22, 2023

    • Lowrey, Annie, "Is Single Parenthood the Problem?", The Atlantic, Sept. 22, 2023

    • McArdle, Megan, "Children Will Benefit if We Face This Fact: Married Parents are Ideal", The Washington Post, Sept. 20, 2023

    • Rosenberg, Alyssa, "Liberals don’t like talking up marriage. Here’s how they can start.", The Washington Post, Sept. 19, 2023

    • Irwin, Neil, "New Book Shows Economic Downside of Single Parenting", AXIOS, Sept. 18, 2023

    • Riley, Naomi Schaefer, "No Culture Wars, Please, We’re Academics", AEI, Sept. 18, 2023

    • Lehman, Charles Fain, "The Ultimate Privilege? Two Parents", Institute for Family Studies, Sept. 18, 2023

    • Keynes, Soumaya, "The Two-Parent Privilege — We Need to Talk About Kids With Single Parents", Financial Times, Sept. 15, 2023

    • Rowe, Ian, "The Privilege Hiding in Plain Sight", National Review, Sept. 14, 2023

    • Christof, Nicholas, "The One Privilege Liberals Ignore", The New York Times, Sept. 13, 2023

    • Miller, Kara, "Marriage is Increasingly for the Upper Classes. That’s Not a Good Sign.", The Boston Globe, Sept. 10, 2023

    • Price, David A., "Melissa Kearney on the American Fertility Decline, the Role of Social Norms, and the Link", Econ Focus Magazine, Sept. 6, 2023

    • Cowen, Tyler, "The Two-Parent Privilege", Marginal Revolution, Apr. 19, 2023

    • Mintz, Steven, "What’s Happening to Today’s Families and Children", Inside Higher Ed, Aug. 16, 2023

    • Sirius XM: Top of Mind, "How American Men and Boys are Falling Behind — and What We Can Do to Help Them", Feb. 5, 2024

    • Fox Business, Dec. 21, 2023

    • WBUR: On Point, "The Benefit of ‘The Two-Parent Privilege’", Nov. 27, 2023

    • C-SPAN’s After Words, Oct. 6, 2023

    • Fox News: America Reports, Oct. 2, 2023

    • WXXI FM & WEOS FM: Connections with Evan Dawson, Sept. 27, 2023

    • The 74 & Yahoo News, Sept. 25, 2023 

    • Bloomberg TV: Wall Street Week, Sept. 14, 2023

    • Defending Ideas — Sutherland Institute, June 11, 2024

    • Talk Cocktail, "Marriage is Now a Luxury Good", Mar. 13, 2024

    • The Mitch Albom Show, "Suddenly Not Enough Babies", May 20, 2024

    • Economics, Applied with Steve Davis — Hoover Institution at Stanford University, "Two Parents or One? What It Means for Children and Society", May 8, 2024

    • The Political Conversation with Wally Knox Part 1 & 2, "What is Happening to Marriage and Families in the US?", Dec. 11, 2023

    • Honestly with Bari Weiss, "Why Half of American Babies are Born to Unmarried Mothers", Dec. 8, 2023

    • What Keeps You Up at Night? — St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "Why the Decline in Rates of Marriage Has Led to a Host of Economic Woes for the Country", Nov. 22, 2023

    • The Political Economy with James Pethokoukis — American Enterprise Institute, "The Importance of the Two-Parent Home", Nov. 2, 2023

    • Report Card — American Enterprise Institute, "Melissa Kearney on the Two-Parent Privilege", Nov. 2, 2023

    • Life and Books and Everything, Oct. 26, 2023

    • The Realignment, "The Decline of Marriage and the Fracturing of America", Oct. 24, 2023

    • Converging Dialogues, "Two Much Privilege: Marriage, Parenting, and Economics", Oct. 12, 2023

    • Are You Kidding Me? — American Enterprise Institute, "Melissa Kearney on Family Structure and Reducing Poverty", Oct. 12, 2023

    • The Dispatch, "Worried About Inequality? Fix Marriage.", Oct. 9, 2023

    • The Vital Center, "The Two-Parent Privilege with Melissa Kearney", Oct. 6, 2023

    • Modern Wisdom, "The Terrifying Impact of Single-Parent Households", Oct. 5, 2023

    • You Might Be Right — University of Tennessee, "Our Kids are Struggling. Who Can Help Them?", Oct. 3, 2023

    • Straight Talk with Hank Paulson, Sept. 26, 2023

    • Education Next: The Education Exchange, "It Takes Two, Baby", Sept. 18, 2023

    • NPR’s Freakonomics, "The Facts are In: Two Parents are Better than One", Sept. 20, 2023

    • Crazy Money with Paul Ollinger, "Why Two Parents are Better than One", Sept. 19, 2023

    • Social Science Bites, "Melissa Kearney on Marriage and Children", Sept. 5, 2023

    • Truth Over Tribe, Apr. 10, 2023

    • Manhattan Institute, "Luxury Beliefs and Two-Parent Privilege", July 27, 2024

    • Baker Institute, "The Two-Parent Privilege: Economic Impacts as Marriage Declines", Mar. 19, 2024

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mar. 1, 2024

    • University of Chicago, "Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility", Nov. 29, 2023

    • University of Utah, "From Marriage to Economics: Melissa Kearney Unravels the Two-Parent Privilege", Nov. 8, 2023

    • University of Maryland, Baltimore County, "Annual Mullen Lecture with Melissa Kearney", Oct. 4, 2023

    • American Enterprise Institute,  Sept. 26, 2023

    • Brookings Institution, "The Two-Parent Privilege: A Conversation on the Case for Marriage", Sept. 21, 2023

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