"The Sociology Debate That Never Ends"

"Instead of pining for the past, we could be doing far, far more as a country to reduce material need for low-income families. Rather than try in vain to revive the idea of early marriage, we could also do more to educate working-class women about how to safely and effectively use contraception to avoid accidental pregnancies and encourage them to put off children until a bit later in life (which, yes, to some degree would just mean preaching what college-educated families already practice)."


Jordan Weissmann in Slate tries to settle the "values-versus-economics" argument regarding the rise of single-parent families.


Paul Krugman at The New York Times joins in.