“Upper middle-class families have become greenhouses for the cultivation of human capital," writes Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves in his new book, Dream Hoarders. "Children raised in them are on a different track than ordinary Americans, right from the very beginning.” As he shows in the book, the children of upper middle-class parents enjoy more than just an economic advantage over their lower income peers—they also enjoy a family stability advantage. That’s because upper middle-class parents are more likely to be married, stay married, and invest more in parenting. But "how much can their children’s educational and economic success be attributed to upper middle-class parents' devotion to stable marriage and highly invested parenting"? That is a question Reeves addressed in a lecture he gave last week at the University of Virginia, where I had the opportunity to ask him more about the role of marriage in shaping the futures of children raised in upper middle-class families. Read More
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