Proposing Prosperity? : : Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America / / Jennifer Randles.
"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 relation...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Learning And Legislating Love
- 2. Rationalizing Romance: Reconciling The Modern Marriage Dilemma Through Skilled Love
- 3. Teaching Upward Mobility: Skilled Love And The Marriage Gap
- 4. Intimate Inequalities And Curtailed Commitments: The Marriage Gap In A Middle- Class Marriage Culture
- 5. The Missing "M Word": Promoting Committed Co- Parenting
- 6. Men, Money, And Marriageability: Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Through Marital Masculinity
- 7. "It'S Not Just Us": Relationship Skills And Poverty'S Perpetual Problems
- 8. Conclusion: Family In Equality And The Limits Of Skills
- Notes
- References
- Index