Sociologist Christina Cross’s new book, Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families, seeks to challenge the emphasis on nuclear families being the key to success for Black children.
Cross’s research reveals that Black kids raised by two parents still struggle far more than white kids from two-parent families, and do only about as well as white kids who only had one parent at home. Read more of this Q&A at Vox.com: https://www.vox.com/policy/461778/inherited-inequality-book-children-single-mother-two-parents-families-racial-inequality-marriage
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