Progressives may scoff, but data backs ‘two-parent privilege’

The political left loves to highlight the increasing rates of income inequality and declining rates of social mobility in recent decades. But progressives conveniently ignore one of the top drivers of these trends: a drop in the percentage of stable, two-parent households. 

Progressives struggle with this reality because it’s much easier — and more politically expedient — to blame something like systemic racism or sexism. They also struggle because it’s a domain that doesn’t really negatively affect the cultural elites: marriage rates for college-educated, higher-income individuals are stable. Meanwhile, the bottom has fallen out of the marriage trends for lower earning, non-college-educated Americans.

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