Melissa Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. Sponsor: Start earning A Yield on Silver, Paid in Silver with Monetary Metals. Click here to find out more: https://bit.ly/3Rs8Rv2 💥Join us on our Journey to 1 Million Subscribers💥 A research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Melissa is also director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group. Dr Kearney's research focuses on issues related to social policy, poverty, and inequality and she has published numerous academic studies related to the economics of families and childbearing. She is the author of, ‘The Two-Parent Privilege: How the decline in marriage has increased inequality and lowered social mobility, and what we can do about it’ - available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C76N6NN1/ Follow Melissa on X: https://x.com/kearney_melissa OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 Trailer 00:39 Intro 01:08 Stats on family breakdown 02:48 Why is this happening? 05:37 The vicious cycle 07:15 The single parent/poverty connection 09:58 Why is this controversial? 13:55 Backlash from feminists 15:20 The black/white divide 18:18 Statistics for Asian families 20:29 SPONSOR: Monetary Metals 21:41 Why can’t we address this? 23:50 Fatherless boys drawn to gangs 28:10 Drug charges and other barriers 30:05 How economics affects child-bearing 35:21 Marriage agnosticism 39:55 Responsibility vs freedom 43:18 Can we have social norms without shame? 45:29 The MTV Effect 48:31 The impact of p*rn 49:56 The decline of religion 51:55 What can we do about this? 55:43 What’s the one thing we’re not talking about? Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Substack! https://triggernometry.substack.com/