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On the future of family structure

By Alliance Alert

Reihan Salaam writing at National Review Online / The Agenda: "In a thought-provoking essay at io9, Annalee Newitz offers thoughts on how family structure will evolve: ... 'Today the revolution has to do with child rearing. Now that women can have children without needing a man to support them, it is going to become more common for women to have children outside marriage. But this doesn?t mean you're necessarily going to see a rise in single motherhood. Women will be free to experiment with many different kinds of parenting arrangements, from raising children alone or with a female partner, to raising them in an extended family.' My guess is that intact neo-traditional families that Wilcox describes in his work ["intact families led by two-earner couples in which one partner focuses on market labor while the other focuses on household labor, but duties are shared"] will continue to yield the best outcomes with regards to educational attainment and household income and hard indicators of emotional well-being ? e.g., levels of abuse, incarceration, institutionalization, etc. Of course, it is also possible that technological and cultural change will mitigate these effects."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 02, 2010 (boomark / email).