Concerned about growing family inequality and low levels of economic immobility in America? Then you should be concerned about the growing marriage divide in America. Robert Lerman and I discuss this in a post up today at RealClearPolitics.

We also think that policy efforts that seek to move beyond marriage are not likely to redress the growing social and economic inequalities associated with this marriage divide. Why? “[No] substitute exists for the intact, married family when it comes to boosting future economic opportunities for children, strengthening the commitment of men to the labor force, and ensuring the economic welfare of families.”

For more on this, see: “For Richer, for Poorer: How Family Structures Economic Success in America.”

— W. Bradford Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, directs the Home Economics Project at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies. He is co-author of a new AEI-IFS report, “For Richer, for Poorer: How Family Structures Economic Success in America.”