Promotes the married, two-parent family as the ideal and morally superior family structure.
The article idealizes marriage as the solution to poverty and racial inequity, using income and poverty data to elevate married couples as the gold standard. It frames marriage as a cultural imperative and 'success sequence' without acknowledging diverse family forms or structural barriers to marriage.
“the married, two-parent family structure is now the exception — not the norm — in black America.”
