Proposing prosperity? : marriage education policy and inequality in America /

Fragile families, unmarried parents who struggle emotionally and financially are one of the primary targets of the Healthy Marriage Initiative, a federal policy that has funded marriage education programs in nearly every state. These programs, which encourage marriage by teaching relationship skills...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Randles, Jennifer M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Family life education > United States.
Marriage > United States.
Family policy > United States.
Poor families > Services for > United States.
Equality > United States.
Éducation à la vie familiale > États-Unis.
Mariage > États-Unis.
Politique familiale > États-Unis.
Familles pauvres > Services > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Equality.
Family life education.
Family policy.
Marriage.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Going inside the healthy marriage classroom
  • Rationalizing romance: reconciling the modern marriage dilemma through skilled love
  • Teaching upward mobility: skilled love and the marriage gap
  • Intimate inequalities and curtailed commitments: the marriage gap in a middle-class marriage culture
  • The missing "M-word": poverty, prosperity, and promoting committed co-parenting
  • Men, money, and marriageability: promoting responsible fatherhood through marital masculinity
  • "It's not just us": relationship skills and poverty's perpetual problems
  • Family inequality and the limits of skills.

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