Dominic Beck

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In her answers, Calarco pointed out something that’s really stuck with me: the average adult in the US lives only 18 miles from their mother — and 80% of US adults live less than a two-hour drive away!
You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don't You?
Matei cites a study that found that friends living within a mile of each other are 25 percent more likely to feel happy
You'd Be Happier Living Closer to Friends. Why Don't You?
In particular, the upper middle class is solidifying. This favored fifth at the top of the income distribution, with an average annual household income of $200,000, has been separating from the 80 percent below. Collectively, this top fifth has seen a $4 trillion-plus increase in pretax income since 1979, compared to just over $3 trillion for everyone else. Some of those gains went to the top 1 percent. But most went to the 19 percent just beneath them.
Opinion | Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich - The New York Times
At least posh people in England have the decency to feel guilty.
Opinion | Stop Pretending You’re Not Rich - The New York Times
To reduce the daily scramble, the Sacramento school district recently raised its substitute teacher pay to $355 a day, or about $54 an hour, one of the highest rates in the country.
Teachers Are Missing More School, and There Are Too Few Substitutes - The New York Times
The district, which serves a mostly low-income and Hispanic student body of around 13,000, found success with a one-on-one coaching program that teaches coping strategies to the most disruptive students. In some cases, students went from having 20 classroom outbursts per year to fewer than five, Dr. Shepherd said.
Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere - The New York Times
chronic absenteeism (missing 10% or more of the school year)
Chronic Absenteeism in the Classroom Context: Effects on Achievement - Michael A. Gottfried, 2019
For districts in wealthier areas, chronic absenteeism rates have about doubled, to 19 percent in the 2022-23 school year from 10 percent before the pandemic, a New York Times analysis of the data found.
Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere - The New York Times
hope that other communities interested in creating more structured interdependence find this site helpful in the journey.
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Americans are hungering to live in extended and forged families, in ways that are new and ancient at the same time
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
Ever since I started working on this article, a chart has been haunting me. It plots the percentage of people living alone in a country against that nation’s GDP. There’s a strong correlation. Nations where a fifth of the people live alone, like Denmark and Finland, are a lot richer than nations where almost no one lives alone, like the ones in Latin America or Africa. Rich nations have smaller households than poor nations. The average German lives in a household with 2.7 people. The average Gambian lives in a household with 13.8 people.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
The real victims were the young boys who had to shoot somebody to get into a family, their gang.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
Common also recently teamed up with another developer, Tishman Speyer, to launch Kin, a co-housing community for young parents.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
Common, a real-estate-development company that launched in 2015, operates more than 25 co-housing communities, in six cities, where young singles can live this way.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
2016 survey by a real-estate consulting firm found that 44 percent of home buyers were looking for a home that would accommodate their elderly parents, and 42 percent wanted one that would accommodate their returning adult children.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
While European settlers kept defecting to go live with Native American families, almost no Native Americans ever defected to go live with European families.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
In other words, while social conservatives have a philosophy of family life they can’t operationalize, because it no longer is relevant, progressives have no philosophy of family life at all, because they don’t want to seem judgmental.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
Many older people are now “elder orphans,” with no close relatives or friends to take care of them.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
Institution, if you are born into poverty and raised by your married parents, you have an 80 percent chance of climbing out of it. If you are born into poverty and raised by an unmarried mother, you have a 50 percent chance of remaining stuck.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
American children are more likely to live in a single-parent household than children from any other country
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
In 1960, roughly 5 percent of children were born to unmarried women. Now about 40 percent are.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
When you put everything together, we’re likely living through the most rapid change in family structure in human history. The causes are economic, cultural, and institutional all at once.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
If the U.S. returned to the marriage rates of 1970, child poverty would be 20 percent lower.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
sabel Sawhill, an economist at the Brookings Institution, cited research indicating that differences in family structure have “increased income inequality by 25 percent.”
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
As of 2005, 85 percent of children born to upper-middle-class families were living with both biological parents when the mom was 40. Among working-class families, only 30 percent were.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
the affluent can hire therapists and life coaches for themselves, as replacement for kin or close friends
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
Among the highly educated, family patterns are almost as stable as they were in the 1950s; among the less fortunate, family life is often utter chaos.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
There are more American homes with pets than with kids.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
In 1960, according to census data, just 13 percent of all households were single-person households. In 2018, that figure was 28 percent.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
marriage is primarily about adult fulfillment.”
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
Eli Finkel, a psychologist and marriage scholar at Northwestern University, has argued that since the 1960s, the dominant family culture has been the “self-expressive marriage.”
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
The master trend in Baby Boomer culture generally was liberation—“Free Bird,” “Born to Run,” “Ramblin’ Man.”
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
In short, the period from 1950 to 1965 demonstrated that a stable society can be built around nuclear families—so long as women are relegated to the household, nuclear families are so intertwined that they are basically extended families by another name, and every economic and sociological condition in society is working together to support the institution.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
Today, only a minority of American households are traditional two-parent nuclear families and only one-third of American individuals live in this kind of family.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
The decline of multigenerational cohabiting families exactly mirrors the decline in farm employment.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic
Steven Ruggles, a professor of history and population studies at the University of Minnesota, calls these “corporate families”—social units organized around a family business.
David Brooks: The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake - The Atlantic