Two Parents or One? What It Means for Children and Society | Economics, Applied
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
- It’s easier for two parents to provide the time, attention, love, and financial resources that help children thrive and lead successful lives than it is for a single parent. Yet the share of American children who live with two parents has plummeted in recent decades. The decline is especially steep outside of the college-educated class. Why are so many parents now raising children outside of marriage? What are the consequences for children and society? How do the benefits of two parents play out across racial and ethnic groups? Do the effects differ between boys and girls? What, if anything, can we do so that more children reap the benefits of two-parent households? Tune in, as Melissa Kearney joins Steven Davis to discuss The Two-Parent Privilege, her highly insightful book on these issues.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Melissa Kearney is a chaired professor of economics at the University of Maryland, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, non-resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, and a highly accomplished researcher. She holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University and a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among many other roles, she serves on the editorial boards of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and the Journal of Economic Literature. She is also on the board of the Notre Dame Wilson-Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities and a scholar affiliate with the MIT Abdul Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
Steven J. Davis is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He is a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, advisor to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, past editor of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and an elected fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. He co-founded the Economic Policy Uncertainty project, the US Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes, the Global Survey of Working Arrangements, the Survey of Business Uncertainty, and the Stock Market Jumps project. He co-organizes the Asian Monetary Policy Forum, held annually in Singapore. Previously, Davis was on the faculty at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, serving as both distinguished service professor and deputy dean of the faculty.
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Each episode of the video podcast series Economics, Applied features senior fellow Steven Davis in conversation with leaders and researchers about economic developments and their ramifications. The goal is to bring evidence and economic reasoning to the table, drawing lessons for individuals, organizations, and society. The podcast also aims to showcase the value of individual initiative, markets, the rule of law, and sound policy in fostering prosperity and security.
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RELATED RESOURCES:
• The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind: www.amazon.com/Two-Parent-Pri...
• Social Poverty: Low-Income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties: nyupress.org/9781479891214/so...
• The Trouble with Boys: Social Influences and the Gender Gap in Disruptive Behavior: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10...
• Male Earnings, Marriageable Men, and Non-Marital Fertility: Evidence from the Fracking Boom: direct.mit.edu/rest/article-a...
• Collateralized Marriage: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10...
• Melissa Kearny Personal website: econweb.umd.edu/~kearney/meli...
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It's not about money. It's about moral values.
What does the data say about the difference between single father households and single mother households?
Why? Incentives. It’s not that puzzling.
Cash, prizes, custody and the status that comes with being a single baby mama.
aka government leach with an entitlement complex
Bingo! All the incentives and rules have promoted being s single baby momma and it's gone on so long I'm not sure it can be reversed. It has become part of the culture.
Economists better worry about the falling birth rate, not college education. Kids need to be happy and well adjusted and that takes 2 parents.
15:35. Thomas Sowell and other writer have written about this for decades. The bell curve of int discussed it but it got buried due to the other subject they foolishly and incorrectly got into. Thankfully, we had people like Thomas Sowell willing to point out where they were right and wrong.
Good video and topic. Props
This study (or at least the interview) did not address the sudden change in household issues (death and divorce) after childhood rearing on the child’s likelihood of “success”. In other words, children going from dual parent to single parent after middle or high school. I’d be willing to wager the kids end up normal or “successful” as defined by the parameters of the study. Given the high rates of divorce in society and the top 5% of income , that would be an interesting study. Especially in many of the top 1% households where many couples stay married until the child hits high school or college in spite of the couple despising each other either overtly or covertly. I would posit it is those marriages which have led many of the millennials to shy away from marriage and its embedded pretenses in top of the economic sacrifices.
I think a lot of the why has been addressed in other Hoover Institution talks with Thomas Sowell.
"The last people on earth, who should have children are parents".
No, children need both parents. In the ideal world.
Any negatives associated with a single father raising a kid?
(Asking for a friend)
Forgive the guilty is often more accurate than don’t blame the victim. The many people who have suffered from growing up in broken home have a right to point out legitimate guilt while forgiving parents who did this. But to act like parents aren’t guilty of legitimate sin in this regard is to not care at all about children, which this society seems to have embraced, abortion is a great example.
State programs and media outreach may help but what is rally needed is a change of heart. People need Jesus and His Church. This is the only thing that will heal these broken relationships. Blessings.
34:50 That is what good people do. If they do it for their children they are also likely to do it for their spouse, parents, neighbors (including immigrants), and even foreign nations. Even their enemies if they want to be like God.
Only one parent is s negative for many kids
Who is an Asian American ? Which country you are referring to ? Is it China ? Where would Indians (Asia) fit into ?
Read Thomas Sowell on this topic. Race has nothing to do with anything it is all cultural. There is only one race but different cultures/way of living. Sowell points out Blacks actually higher marriage rates that Whites and were trending better prior to the welfare state. Once the marriages rates plummeted so did they success rare and incarceration rates greatly increased. Again though we are all the same race this is simply cultural group identity. Sowell pointed all this out a long time ago.
This chick is all over the map, most all of 'her research' had already been done, and she speaks so fast at times it sounds like mumbling.
The interviewer seemed more informed .
Economists should FIRST be concerned with the inadequate birth rate.
The falling away from Christ and His teaching was basically ignored or thrown into social norms
To which it is not. The reality of the spiritual world all around has effects that will be felt even if people do not want them to be know or discussed. Society, cultures and ways of life are based spiritual reality tied directly into this existence in the way of life it produces. The Church describes this as the was of the Holy Spirit (producing a certain way of life) VS the spirit of the antichrist. The early
Church Father’s called this the two ways referring to following Christ at The Way of life. St Augustine called this the City of God vs the City of Man. Rejecting Christ eventually leads to its fulfillment in the global government of the antichrist spoken of in Rev 13 and 2 Thess 2.
Maranatha
It's disappointing that the research on race and legal institution is merely whispered about here. There's a sort of passive engagement with investigating the full impact of how over-policing and unbalanced sentencing in Black communities following desegregation/integration began the trend in the erosion of American families. Forced to embrace exogenous factors of retaliatory and discriminating over-policing against an influential Black creative class, which has always dominated the American psyche and imagination, Black influencers inadvertently carved a social validation for single parenthood due to the concurrent factor of a oft ill-directed and imbalanced assault by media pundits ascribing single Black parenthood upon the affected populations of the legally molested demographic. The growth of that cultural trend is only natural and should be easily understood and greatly, if not most prominently, articulated. 🙄...unless there's some other agenda when publishing and proselytizing about this type of research...🤷🏾♂️
У лектора двое родителей или один? С этого надо начинать беседу. И какого родителя бы он оставил как родителя ? И почему он родился от мужчины и женщины? Как он может , себя считать достойным обсуждать такую тему?????!!!!!!! Нет!!!! Только не говори что у тебя есть жена и вы родили детей!!!!!! Это ужасно !!!!! Ты не можешь рассуждать на эту тему!!!!!!
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