Melissa Kearney, author of The Two-Parent Privilege offered the following observation on X:
I gave another talk about the Two Parent Privilege to college students today. And again, during the Q&A, a college student asked me why I don’t talk about porn/TikTok/OnlyFans, and how addiction to those sites is affecting young people’s ability to form healthy relationships.
I answered honestly that it wasn’t part of the lens I brought to the topic of family structure when I wrote the book. But it keeps coming up, over and over, in all the conversations I am having outside my usual policy/academic circles about marriage & family formation.
I have been quite struck by how often young people have brought this issue up to me over the past 7 months, and I don’t quite know what to make of it.
