Uncle Sam wants…marriage recruits
Tuscon Citizen
Jean Hardisty
February 15, 2008
The Bush administration has authorized the expenditure of over $750 million between 2006 and 2010 to promote marriage—especially for poor women. Wellesley Centers for Women senior scholar Jean Hardisty explains how this right-wing movement is meant to create more traditional, father-headed nuclear families, and how social science shows no evidence that this will mitigate poverty.
The full article is available here.
This article also ran in LA Daily Journal, Daily Star (Hammond, LA), Sun Chronicle (Attleboro, MA), Daily News Transcript (Norwood, MA). Roswell Daily Record (Roswell, NM), and Mooresville Tribune (Mooresville, NC).
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