1. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Family Income Inequality, Part 4 on DeParle's Marriage Plot
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... any changes in their results). Here, again, Naomi Cahn and June Carbone's Red Families vs. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture seems relevant. Regardless of the precise explanation ...

2. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Inequality, Part 3 on DeParle's Marriage Plot
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Sociologist Loïc Wacquant writes that "binary oppositions are well-suited to exaggerating differences, confounding description and prescription, and setting up overburdened dualisms that erase continuities, ...

3. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Inequality, Part 2 on DeParle
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... of the rising income inequality among families with children on changes in family structure. As the story's title puts it, when Deparle looks at Shairer and Faulkner, he sees "Two Classes, Divided by 'I ...

4. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Inequality
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... increase in income inequality among families with children in the last several decades.  But when I turned to Western's published research on this issue, I found it to be somewhat more complicated than ...