| Columbia UP | Proposing Prosperity? by Jennifer M. Randles

New from Columbia University Press NEW BOOKS MORE IN SOCIOLOGY MORE IN SOCIAL WORK Proposing Prosperity? Marriage Education Policy and Inequality in America Jennifer M. Randles "The growing income gap in America has brought with it a marriage gap. Children are born at every class level but increasingly the rich marry and the poor don't. In 2002 President Bush set up the Healthy Marriage Initiative to teach poor unmarried parents to show empathy, listen actively, avoid violence, and marry. Participants loved and learned from the program, but discovered in its underlying ideology a focus on choice (to be or not to be nice to your partner) and silence about options (to get useful training and well paid work). In this beautifully researched, wise, important book, Randles tackles one of America's most important dilemmas and points to urgently needed solutions."-Arlie Hochschild, author of The Second Shift and Strangers in Their Own Land Jennifer M. Randles takes the reader inside healthy marriage classrooms to reveal how their curricula are reflections of broader issues of culture, gender, governance, and social inequality. In analyzing the implementation of healthy marriage policy, Randles questions whether it should target individual behavior or the social and economic context of that behavior. The most valuable approach, she concludes, will not be grounded in notions of middle-class marriage culture. Instead, it will reflect the fundamental premise that love and commitment thrive most within the context of social and economic opportunity. Read more ... Sociology / Social Work $60.00 $42.00 | Hardcover | 280 pages | £44.00   USE COUPON CODE "EMAIL" AND SAVE 30% STAY CONNECTED

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