Enduring Bonds

Introduction

Chapter 1. Modernity, Parenting, and Families

1. Why Don’t Parents Name Their Daughters Mary Anymore?
2. “Parenting” through the (Only Very Recent) Ages
3. How Do They Do It?
4. Parenting Survivor Bias
5. Santa’s Magic, Children’s Wisdom, and Inequality

Chapter 2. Marriage, Single Mothers, and Poverty

1. What Does It Take to Eliminate Poverty?
2. Reducing Poverty through Marriage
3. Single Mothers and Crime

Chapter 3. Marriage Promotion

1. We Can’t Build Our Social System around Marriage Anymore
2. Marriage (Not) Promoted
3. Turns Out Marriage and Income Inequality Go Pretty Well Together
4. Marriage Promotion and the Myth of Teen Pregnancy
5. The Marriage Movement Has Failed (Long Live the Marriage Movement)
6. Getting Serious about Promoting Marriage to End Poverty

Chapter 4. Marriage Equality in Social Science and the Courts

Chapter 5. Doing Dimorphism

1. Gender Wars and the Defense of Difference
2. Pink and Blue
3. Braced for Beauty

Chapter 6. Gender Inequality

1. Gender Segregation at the New York Times
2. The Gender Gap Gets It from All Sides
3. Gender Shifts in Families
4. That Feminist Viral Statistic Meme

Chapter 7. Race, Gender, and Families

1. Black Is Not a Color
2. Black Women’s Educational Success
3. Detroit’s Grueling Demographic Decline
4. What They Say about Race When They Don’t Say Anything about Race
5. Race, Racism, and Missing Marriages

Chapter 8. Feminism and Sexuality

1. Not Your Feminist Grandmother’s Patriarchy
2. Does Sleeping with a Guy on the First Date Make Him Less Likely to Call Back?
3. Is the Price of Sex Too Damn Low?
4. Getting beyond How The Factual Feminist Is Wrong about the Prevalence of Rape
5. Why I Don’t Defend the Sex-versus-Gender Distinction
6. Does Doing Difference Deny Dominance?

Notes
References
Index