"Kay Hymowitz thoughtfully takes on the minimalists who say a marriage is just a shack-up plus a piece of paper. Her elegant essays show that marriage is an essential culture-preserver, poverty-fighter, and life-improver." --Marvin Olasky, editor-in-chief, World News Group, WORLD

"America could save itself a lot of trouble by paying attention to what [Hymowitz] writes." --Theodore Dalrymple

"A sobering investigation of the widening gap in the American social structure that's being caused by new attitudes toward marriage." --Ron Haskins

"The most fascinating (but grimmest) sections...deal with child-rearing skills in unmarried America." --Charlotte Hays, The Wall Street Journal

"Marriage and Caste in America should provoke serious thought about how marriage has become a class issue-and what we can do about it." --Christine B. Whelan, New York Post

"Essential." --David Brooks, The New York Times

"Hymowitz...has concluded that the family revolution [is both] bad news for children [and] has had the effect of stratifying the country as a whole." --Steve Goddard's History Wire

"Hymowitz provides an arresting diagnosis of American social ills." --Cheryl Miller, The American Conservative

"Hymowitz has the gift of being able to convey complicated ideas, theories, and history in lucid and witty language." --Lisa Schiffren, COMMENTARY

"A strong case for the value of marriage." --Today's Machine World

"A short and readable volume.... Hymowitz has surely contributed...to creating the present hopeful moment for mainstream America." --Claudia Anderson, The Weekly Standard

"Kay Hymowitz makes a persuasive case in Marriage and Caste in America that the best social program is actually marriage." --David Forsmark, Front Page Magazine

"[The author] has the gift of being able to convey complicated ideas, theories, and history in language that is lucid and-most precious of all in discussions of marriage and family-witty. It is a pleasure to read her essays....an intelligent, compelling case....Clear and forceful conclusions about what is missing from the impoverished lives that she describes so well." --Book Review Digest

"Hymowitz cogently lays out a case that when it comes to reducing poverty, economics and family structure can't be separated." --Newsobserver.Com

"Beautifully written tour de force of contemporary American family life." --W Bradford Wilcox, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, First Things

"Powerful...unflinching...analysis of this crisis of the black abandonment of marriage." --Gregory J. Sullivan, Evening Bulletin

"[A] fascinating and informational [book] that you ought to read." --Dr. Laura Schlessinger