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No One Expects Young Men To Do Anything and They Are Responding By Doing Nothing

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I write and read about the culture and habits of elites because it is a way for me to understand this unfamiliar world I find myself in. I read less about the culture of the poor and working-class because I experienced it firsthand. I’m familiar. But occasionally I do read about it. One insightful book is Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas. In their book, Edin, a sociology professor at Princeton, and Kefalas, a sociology professor at St. Joseph’s University, explore why low-income women are disproportionately likely to be unmarried and uninvolved with the father of their children. A common answer from the chattering class is money. The conventional view is that a lack of money leads to out-of-wedlock births. But broken homes are a fairly recent phenomenon. In 1960, across social classes, the vast majority of children were raised by both of their birth parents. By 2005, there was a massive divergence. What happened? Today

No One Expects Young Men To Do Anything and They Are Responding By Doing Nothing Garbage in garbage out Rob Henderson Apr 24, 2022 802 16 54 Share I write and read about the culture and habits of elites because it is a way for me to understand this unfamiliar world I find myself in. I read less about the culture of the poor and working-class because I experienced it firsthand . I’m familiar. Subscribe But occasionally I do read about it. One insightful book is Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas. In their book, Edin, a sociology

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