Fordham Law Professor Eleanor Brown co-authored an article for The Conversation U.S. arguing that marriage may not be as effective a strategy at combating poverty as many have been led to believe.
We are law professors who have written extensively about family structure and poverty. We, and others, have found that there is almost no evidence that federal programs that promote marriage have made a difference in encouraging two-parent households. That’s in large part because they forgo effective solutions that directly address poverty for measures that embrace the culture wars.
