Two Parents, Not Just Two Incomes, Help Kids Get Ahead

"Study after study confirms that children in married-parent families grow up to be better off financially than the children of single and divorced parents. This makes intuitive sense, of course; a single parent supporting her kids with only one income is going to have a tougher time giving her kids the same advantages that a child of a two-parent family will get. But it's not that simple. New research confirms that income accounts for less than half of the advantage that the children of married couples get. In fact, it's married couples' parenting behaviors that have the bigger effect." Danielle Kurtzleben in Vox.