Married parents, better childhood

Published October 11, 2024 4:50am ET



The family, headed by married parents, is “an anti-queer factory for producing productive workers, rife with power asymmetries and violence,” feminist luminary Sophie Lewis writes. Lewis is on the fringes of the commentariat and academia, but certainly among our tastemakers, it is distasteful to say that marriage is good and better than the alternatives.

Poor Melissa Kearney, an economist at the center-left Brookings Institution, got her liberal card pulled for documenting, empirically, the benefits to children of being raised by a pair of committed parents instead of just one.

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