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"This hollowing out of marriage in mainstream America is among the most consequential social facts of our era," declares A Call for a New Conversation on Marriage, just released by the Institute for American Values. "It's contributing to the growth of inequality, harming countless children, and weakening, perhaps fatally, our formerly strong middle class. And amazingly, if you listen to political leaders of both parties and opinion leaders from both the left and right, you'll discover that very few of them appear even to have noticed what's happening." Making a point our editor has made several times, the Call notes that "marriage is rapidly dividing along class lines, splitting the country that it used to unite. While marriage is stable or strengthening among our college-educated elites, much larger numbers of Americans, particularly in middle and working-class America, are abandoning the institution entirely, with harmful social and personal consequences."