![]() ![]() I am in favor of these programs and wish we were doing more as I have argued elsewhere. Village Builders are resigned to the new reality of declining marriage rates and think that the best response is to provide single parent families with more assistance in the difficult job of raising children on their own - more child care, health care, earnings supplements or a higher minimum wage, for example. The Village Builders: Support Single Parents As my colleague Ron Haskins has written elsewhere, rigorous evaluations of the marriage education programs of the 2000s show little or no effect of these policy interventions on family stability and marriage rates. Unfortunately, policies intended to bring back marriage have not been very effective. But it isn’t a government spending program. This view is perhaps best exemplified by a quote from Republican Senator Marco Rubio “the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82 percent. The traditionalists are deeply concerned about the growing fractures in family life and believe the solution is to bring back marriage. ![]() In the debate over these questions, people tend to fall into one of two camps: the “traditionalists” or the “village builders.” The Traditionalists: Bring Back Marriage Is this trend benign? Most experts think not. Many young adults are drifting into relationships and into childbearing without marriage. Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage Note: This piece is the third in a series of blog posts on Isabel Sawhill’s new book ![]()
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