Over the weekend Jason DeParle had a long, interesting piece on marriage in the New York Times. The gist of the piece is this couplet: (1) Marriage is a key driver of economic prosperity for families and married parents are more likely to have prosperous, healthy, stable families than single parents, and (2) marriage is increasingly becoming the preserve of college-educated whites while non-college educated whites and minorities increasingly experience single parenthood, either because of divorce, cohabitation, or out-of-wedlock childbearing.

Here’s a flavor of the material: