
It’s Still About the Economy: A Response to ‘The Republican Marriage Advantage’
Differences in marriage rates reflect the demographic composition of each party: Democrats are more likely to be Black or Hispanic, and to be younger—groups who are less likely to marry.
In the United States, family instability is substantially more a function of economic precarity than of partisan identity.
We should not be focusing on partisanship but on the increasing economic divergence in contemporary America—and on how we can best support children.