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…

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