Two-Parent Homes Aren’t A Privilege. They’re A Right – The Federalist
It s doubtful whether any accusation of privilege in our lexicon will overtake white privilege. But among the crowd of recent upstarts is one exceptional one: two-parent privilege.
The term may have originated with a Dennis Prager article in National Review a few years ago, but it has entered the left s mindset as another indictment of affluent people who just don t or can t understand the experiences of people different from them. This is because being raised by your two parents is thought of as an upper-class phenomenon, while being raised by a single parent is thought of as a low-income phenomenon. It features, for example, in lists of questions asked in privilege walk exercises.
But two-parent privilege is an intriguing formulation and one worth exploring. What does it really mean?