It is adapted here with permission. ‘Family structure doesn’t really matter — at least when it comes to explaining the stark racial gap in upward mobility between black and white boys.” ...

This is not surprising, as Moynihan pointed out so eloquently, because family structure is perhaps the most important factor in a child’s success, or lack of success, in life. Without such ...

“Family structure matters” in the words of my American Enterprise Institute colleague Brad Wilcox, who is also the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virgini ...

It’s been a rough two weeks for the family-structure denialists, those progressive academics (Philip Cohen, “How to Live in a World Where Marriage Is in Decline”), journalists (Katie Roiphe ...