The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke

One in Seven
Unseen Dangers
A Mother’s Story
Having Children, Going Broke
Where Did the Money Go?
For the Children
Bidding War in the Suburbs
Out of the Housing Trap?
The Price of Education
The Promise of Public Education
That All-Important Degree
Time for a Tuition Freeze?
The Family Car
Families Then, Families Now: The Two-Income Trap
The All-Purpose Safety Net
No New Money
Good Intentions
Turn Back the Clock?
No Shame in Failure
The Easy Way Out
Fraud and Abuse
What Went Wrong
Two-Income Trap, Part Two
Bad Timing
Adding It Up
There But for the Grace of God
One Survivor’s Story
An Ounce of Prevention
The Myth
The Best of Times . . .
. . . The Worst of Times
Continuing Fallout from the Two-Income Trap
Trying to Compete in a Two-Income World
The Facts of Marriage
Out of the Trap: Make Dad Pay More?
Share the Pain?
Tapped Out
A Lesson from the Two-Parent Family
The Brave New (Unregulated) World
The Debt Explosion
Mortgaging the Future
Where the Money Is
Repo Man in the Suburbs
A Problem That Can Be Solved
Deafening Silence
Goliath Meets David
Reclaiming the Politics of the Family
When the House Is Already on Fire
Stay Home?
The Other Solution: No Children?
Bankrupt Children
Playing by the Rules
Development of the Sample
Core Sample
Supplemental Samples
Protection of Confidentiality
Instruments
Response Rates
Coding Accuracy
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Appendix