Rebecca Mead reviews “On Marriage,” by Devorah Baum, and “The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind,” by Melissa S. Kearney.
How is marriage unlike everything else? And why is it sometimes so very awful? These are questions raised by the British critic and filmmaker Devorah Baum in her nimble new work, “On Marriage” . There is, she writes, “something enigmatic about the marital bond lying in excess of Enlightenment reason or easy description.
” Kearney begins by setting forth what she acknowledges is a difficult argument to make, at least if one does not want to be accused of being a doctrinaire social conservative: that the decline in marriage rates and the corresponding rise in the number of children being raised in one-parent homes “has contributed to the economic insecurity of American families, has widened the gap in opportunities and outcomes for children from different backgrounds, and today poses economic and social...
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