Kay S. Hymowitz (born December 25, 1948) is an American author.

Early life and education

Born in Philadelphia, she earned her B.A. at

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, and her M.A. in English literature from

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Career

She taught English literature and composition at

Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus. Being New York City's first publ ...

and at the

Parsons School of Design Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhatt ...

. As of 2010 she was the William E. Simon fellow at the

Manhattan Institute The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (renamed in 1981 from the International Center for Economic Policy Studies) is a conservative American think tank focused on domestic policy and urban affairs, established in Manhattan in 1978 by Ant ...

and a contributing editor of ''

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''. Her writing has appeared in the ''

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''.

Personal life

She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and three children.

Views and reception

In a ''

'' editorial, Hymowitz argues that the widely reported marriage crisis is limited to certain sectors of the population.

rital breakdown is not rampant across the land. It is concentrated among low-income and black couples. Americans seem to have a lot of trouble grasping this fact, probably because so much public space is taken up by politicians, celebrities and journalists with marriages on the skids.

She argues that divorce is declining among well educated Caucasians, and that couples are registering increased marital satisfaction, rather than divorcing, once the children leave the nest. According to Scripps News Service, however, Hymowitz perceives a gap between the education, accomplishments and aspirations of young women and men in today's society.

Hymowitz paints a mass portrait of 20-something men getting drunk and sitting in front of their Play Stations, while 20-something women get great jobs and make families on their own.

In a commentary on Hymnowitz for the

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, Rob Asghar, a Fellow at the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California, wrote that, "Hymowitz comes armed with solid data and some genuine facts before she starts shooting like an angered Mama Grizzly at the male species". ''

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'' called ''Marriage and Caste in America'' a "bracingly clear description of the causes and effects of the breakdown of marriage as the central institution of American society."

Ilya Somin Ilya Somin (born 1973) is a law professor at George Mason University, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, a blogger for the Volokh Conspiracy, and a former co-editor of the '' Supreme Court Economic Review'' (2006–2013). His research focu ...

offers a

libertarian Libertarianism (from french: libertaire, "libertarian"; from la, libertas, "freedom") is a political philosophy that upholds liberty as a core value. Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and political freedom, and minimize the state's e ...

critique of Hymowitz: "My main criticism of Hymowitz's essay was that she falsely conflates libertarians' opposition to government regulation of personal choices with an indiscriminate embrace of 1960s style lifestyle excesses."Ilya Somin,
Kay Hymowitz’s Response to Her Libertarian Critics
,

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September 28, 2007

Books

* ''Ready or not: why treating children as small adults endangers their future – and ours'' (1999) * ''Liberation's children: parents and kids in a postmodern age'' (2003) * ''Marriage and caste in America: separate and unequal families in a post-marital age'' (2006) * ''Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys'' (2011) * ''The New Brooklyn: What It Takes to Bring a City Back'' (2017)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hymowitz, Kay S. 1948 births Living people American sociologists American women sociologists Brandeis University alumni Brooklyn College faculty Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni Writers from Philadelphia Manhattan Institute for Policy Research