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Tufts University.
(Women complain there are no good men left--that men are i...)
Women complain there are no good men left--that men are immature, unreliable, and adrift. No wonder. Masculine role models have become increasingly juvenile and inarticulate: think of stars like Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell, or the dudes of the popular Judd Apatow movies. There are no rules for dating and mating. Guys are unsure how to treat a woman. Most importantly, dating in the pre-adult years is no longer a means to an end--marriage--as it was in the past. Many young men today suspect they are no longer essential to family life, and without the old scripts to follow, they find themselves stuck between adolescence and "real" adulthood. In Manning Up, Kay Hymowitz sets these problems in a socioeconomic context: today's knowledge economy is female friendly, and many of the highest profile areas of that economy--communications, design, the arts, and health care--are dominated by women. Men are increasingly left on the outskirts of this new, service economy, and take much longer to find a financial foothold. With no biological clock telling them it's time to grow up, without the financial resources to settle down, and with the accepted age of marriage rising into the late 30s or even 40s, men are holding onto adolescence at the very time that women are achieving professional success and looking to find a mate to share it with. A provocative account of the modern sexual economy, Hymowitz deftly charts a gender mismatch that threatens the future of the American family and makes no one happy in the long run.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DF9XJ74/?tag=2022091-20
( In Manning Up, Manhattan Institute fellow and City Jour...)
In Manning Up, Manhattan Institute fellow and City Journal contributing editor Kay Hymowitz argues that the gains of the feminist revolution have had a dramatic, unanticipated effect on the current generation of young men. Traditional roles of family man and provider have been turned upside down as pre-adult” men, stuck between adolescence and real” adulthood, find themselves lost in a world where women make more money, are more educated, and are less likely to want to settle down and build a family. Their old scripts are gone, and young men find themselves adrift. Unlike women, they have no biological clock telling them it’s time to grow up. Hymowitz argues that it’s time for these young men to man up.”
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465018424/?tag=2022091-20
(A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary expe...)
A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary experiment to redefine marriage. Where historically men and women had sought a loving bond, largely centered on the rearing of children, the new arrangement called for an intimate―and provisional―union of two adults. Now, as Kay Hymowitz argues in Marriage and Caste in America, the results of this experiment separating marriage from childrearing are in, and they turn out to be bad news not only for children but also, in ways little understood, for the country as a whole. The family revolution has played a central role in a growing inequality and high rates of poverty, even during economic good times. The family upheaval has hit African-Americans especially hard, Ms. Hymowitz shows, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan had famously predicted it would. While for decades feminists and academics toyed with the myth of the strong single black mother supported by kinship networks, black men drifted into fatherhood without being husbands, without even becoming part of a family, while black children were left behind. When Americans began their family revolution, they forgot to consider what American marriage was designed to do: it ordered lives by giving the young a meaningful life script. It supported middle-class foresight, planning, and self-sufficiency. And it organized men and women around "The Mission"―nurturing their children's cognitive, emotional, and physical development. More than anything, Ms. Hymowitz writes, it is The Mission that separates middle-class kids―who for all their overscheduling are doing very well indeed―from their less-parented and lower-achieving peers. In fact our great family experiment threatens to turn what the founders imagined as an opportunity-rich republic of equal citizens into a hereditary caste society.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566637538/?tag=2022091-20
(Arguing on the results of the experiment separating marri...)
Arguing on the results of the experiment separating marriage from childrearing, this book says that they turn out to be bad news not only for children, but also for the country. It shows that the family experiment threatens to turn what the founders imagined as an opportunity-rich republic of equal citizens into a hereditary caste society.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002A7G5XC/?tag=2022091-20
(Kay Hymowitz argues the results of the experiment separat...)
Kay Hymowitz argues the results of the experiment separating marriage from childrearing are in, and they turn out to be bad news not only for children but also, in ways little understood, for the country as a whole. In fact our great family experiment threatens to turn what the founders imagined as an opportunity-rich republic of equal citizens into a hereditary caste society.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0023ZR0LM/?tag=2022091-20
Tufts University.
Born in Philadelphia, she earned her Bachelor of Arts at Brandeis University, and her Master of Arts in English literature from Tufts University. She taught English literature and composition at Brooklyn College and at the Parsons School of Design. As of 2010 she was the William East. Simon fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.
Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal.
In a Wall Street Journal editorial, Hymowitz argues that the widely reported marriage crisis is limited to certain sectors of the population. arital breakdown is not rampant across the land. lieutenant is concentrated among low-income and black couples.
Americans seem to have a lot of trouble grasping this fact, probably because so much public space is taken up by politicians, celebrities and journalists with marriages on the skids. She argues that divorce is declining among well educated Caucasians, and that couples are registering increased marital satisfaction, rather than divorcing, once the children leave the nest.
Hymowitz paints a mass portrait of 20-something men getting drunk and sitting in front of their Play Stations, while 20-something women get great jobs and make families on their own.
In a commentary on Hymnowitz for the Huffington Post, Rob Asghar, a Fellow at the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California, wrote that, "Hymowitz comes armed with solid data and some genuine facts before she starts shooting like an angered Mama Grizzly at the male species:". Commentary called Marriage and Caste in America a "bracingly clear description of the causes and effects of the breakdown of marriage as the central institution of American society."
Ilya Somin offers a libertarian critique of Hymowitz: "My main criticism of Hymowitz’s essay was that she falsely conflates libertarians’ opposition to government regulation of personal choices with an indiscriminate embrace of 1960s style lifestyle excesses.".
( In Manning Up, Manhattan Institute fellow and City Jour...)
(Kay Hymowitz argues the results of the experiment separat...)
(Arguing on the results of the experiment separating marri...)
(Women complain there are no good men left--that men are i...)
(A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary expe...)