Stetson

“What I am doing is arguing, through an appeal to data and rigorous studies, that two
parents tend to be able to provide their children with more resource advantages than
one parent alone. And furthermore, that a two-parent family is increasingly becoming
yet another privilege associated with more highly resourced groups in society.”
― Melissa S. Kearney, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

“Today, in a manner unknown since the arrival of the Pilgrims, the cultural
center of the American nation is fragmenting. The results of the year 2000
census show Hispanics to be overtaking African Americans as the largest
minority, while non-Hispanic whites have declined to just two-thirds of
the U.S. population and have become a minority in the most populous
state, California. Contemplating their demographic decline, white Americans
are engaging in an increasingly bitter, internecine “culture war” that
pits liberal against conservative in a polarized political climate. Against a
demographic backdrop known as the “Browning of America,” the forces
of multiculturalism vie for influence with popular initiatives proclaiming
“English Only,” “immigration reform,” and a Christian America.”
― Eric Kaufmann

“Family structure and parental relationship status are not randomly assigned – that
is, they aren’t designed for easy study. Even if researchers take steps to statistically
account for all the things that can be observed in the data that might be confounding
factors, there is still the possibility that there is something unobserved about single
parents, something that researchers can’t see in the data, that would make them
less well-equipped to be parents even if they were married, such that their children’s
outcomes would still be inferior to those of the children of married parents.”
― Melissa S. Kearney, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

“The survival of an ethnic caste-ideal does not alter the general picture of collapsing ethnic boundaries. The immigration of new ethnic diasporas might mitigate ethnic decline somewhat, but—given ecological constraints—
only for a limited period. Over the longue duree, this thesis would suggest that racial boundaries, as with ethnic boundaries, will continue to weaken, thereby generating a symbolically fluid, highly privatized, post-ethnic social environment. The only foreseeable force that could reverse the decline of dominant ethnicity in the United States is an intellectual crisis in which the cosmopolitan paradigm is jettisoned. This
would entail the American cultural elite losing faith in liberty and equality
as the ultimate standards of social progress. In effect, these Enlightenment ideals would need to be superseded as the definition of the Good in America. Such an about-turn would represent a civilizational cataclysm,
rupturing a progressive narrative that is hundreds of years old, a truly post-“modern” development that is nowhere in sight.”
― Eric P. Kaufmann, The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America