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CULTURE: Parent Attention Gap Behind Class Divide | NewsTaco

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CULTURE: Parent Attention Gap Behind Class Divide

By Sam Quiñones,  A Reporter’s Blog
Fascinating piece in The Atlantic online this morning about what’s behind the class chasm in America.
The magazine holds that a major reason for the class divide in this country is the number of kids born into single-parent families. Or put another way, single-parent families and less parental time spent with kids are both cause and effect of the class divide.
More-educated people are more likely to get married later, and form lasting two-parent families, the magazine