Still not talking about Black-White inequality in marriage

Don't let the marriage promoters not talk about racial inequality.

Black and White women’s lifetime marriage projections

Projections show 86.2% for White women, and 61.7% for Black women, eventually marrying for a cohort born and living through conditions prevailing in 2019.

Chasing Life podcast on making babies, or not

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has a podcast called Chasing Life about coming out of the pandemic. Associate producer Grace Walker interviewed me for an episode titled, "Let’s Talk About Making Babies (Or Deciding Not To)." In it reporter Chloe Melas starts with the story of a Black couple (two women, one of them trans) seeking…

The failure of the success sequence

Generations of applying the "three somethings" formula to a basic idea: the problem with poor people is that they’re doing life wrong.

Who are you gonna marry? That one big assumption marriage promotion gets totally wrong

Economically, the next marriage they (say they will) get from "marriage promotion" won't be as good as the average real marriage.

Unequal marriage markets for Black and White women

We count this as evidence on the side of "structure" over "culture" in the debates over the decline in marriage.

African American marital status by age, Du Bois replication edition

Updating a 1900 chart from W. E. B. Du Bois and his students.

Explain to me again how marriage is the problem here

Black married parents are 2.4-times more likely to be in poverty, are 2.1-times more likely to be unemployed, and have one-ninth the median net worth compared with White married parents.

Black women really do have high college enrollment rates (at age 25+)

Under age 25, Black women are the least likely to be in college, over 25 they're the most likely.

No Black women are not the “most educated” group in the US

This thing going around is completely wrong and we should stop it.