Proposing prosperity? : marriage education policy and inequality in America / Jennifer Randles.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Randles, Jennifer M. (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Family life education > United States.
Marriage > United States.
Family policy > United States.
Poor families > Services for > United States.
Equality > United States.
Physical Description:xii, 267 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Going inside the healthy marriage classroom
  • Rationalizing romance: reconciling the modern marriage dilemma through skilled love
  • Teaching upward mobility: skilled love and the marriage gap
  • Intimate inequalities and curtailed commitments: the marriage gap in a middle-class marriage culture
  • The missing "M-word": poverty, prosperity, and promoting committed co-parenting
  • Men, money, and marriageability: promoting responsible fatherhood through marital masculinity
  • "It's not just us": relationship skills and poverty's perpetual problems
  • Family inequality and the limits of skills.