Andrew Cherlin , an occasional Bloomberg View contributor, is a professor of sociology and public policy at Johns Hopkins University.
A large U.S. government-funded experiment to encourage low-income parents to marry, a legacy of the George W. Bush administration’s Healthy Marriage Initiative, has just fallen flat. Even if you were a skeptic all along of the wisdom of the government promoting marriage, as I was, this isn’t good news. For the children of these unmarried […]
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