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EPISODE · Mar 4, 2026 · 42 MIN

Melissa Kearney on the Two-Parent Privilege and Global Fertility Decline

from Free Food For Thought · host FF4T

In this episode, Caleb and Daniella sit down with Melissa Kearney, a professor of economics at Notre Dame University and a leading expert on family and social policy. As the author of the widely acclaimed 2023 book, The Two Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind, Kearney joined the show to discuss how shifting family structures are widening the gap in socioeconomic inequality and impacting the nation's long-term economic health.

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