Manhattan Institute Scholar

Kay S. Hymowitz is the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She writes extensively on childhood, family issues, poverty, and cultural change in America.

Hymowitz is the author of 4 books including Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age and Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age. Her newest book, Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Is Turning Men Into Boys, was published by Basic Books in March, 2011.

Ms. Hymowitz has also written for many major publications including The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, New York Newsday, The Public Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, and Commentary.

In addition to her writing, Hymowitz has presented her work at many conferences, most recently at "A New Era: Defining Civil Rights in the 21st Century," sponsored by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights She sits on the board of the journal National Affairs and of Future of Children, a publication of the Brookings Institute and the Woodrow Wilson School. She has also discussed her work on numerous radio and television programs.

A native of Philadelphia, Hymowitz has degrees in English literature from Brandeis, Tufts, and Columbia University. She and her husband have three grown children and live in Brooklyn.

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Articles/Op-eds

What "Girls" Says about Relationships Today, Knot Yet, 03-28-13
The New Unmarried Moms, Wall Street Journal, 03-17-13
The Real, Complex Connection Between Single-Parent Families and Crime, The Atlantic, 12-03-12
Shaming Petraeus & the 'National Adultery Ritual', Acculturated, 11-26-12
The Original Culture Warriors, Wall Street Journal, 10-09-12
The End of Men?, National Review Online, 10-02-12
Four Myths About Single Mothers, Slate, 08-03-12
The Single-Mom Catastrophe, Los Angeles Times, 06-03-12
Call a Truce in the Mommy Wars, New York Daily News, 05-13-12
Why Women Make Less Than Men, Wall Street Journal, 04-26-12
Between 'Jersey Shore' and Rick Santorum, Wall Street Journal, 03-23-12
Conservative Women: The Third Sex, The Daily Caller, 03-13-12
The Truth About Marriage In America, FoxNews.com, 12-16-11
Sorry, But The Gender Wage Gap Is Here To Stay, Pittsburg Post-Gazette, 11-13-11
Don't Believe the Hype, College Educated Women Are Still Getting Married, FoxNews.com, 10-19-11
The Decline of Men is a Women's Issue, Cato Unbound, 08-17-11
Women Prefer the Mommy Track, RealClearMarkets, 08-04-11
Why Do People Want to Get Married Anyway?, Forbes, 06-27-11
What the Wal-Mart Case Means for Women in Business, Forbes.com, 06-21-11
Weinergate: Some Parting Thoughts, Forbes, 06-20-11
Anthony Weiner and the National Adultery Ritual, Commentary, 06-14-11
Weinergate: Men Will Always Cheat, The Daily Beast, 06-11-11
Parochial, Not Puritanical, New York Times Room for Debate, 06-08-11
Will Women Marry Down?, The Daily Caller, 04-18-11
What America Really Needs Is A White House Council On Men And Boys, Washington Examiner, 03-22-11
Why Men Need Women, Ask Men, 03-04-11
Why Are Men So Angry?, The Daily Beast, 02-28-11
Count Them Out, Wall Street Journal, 02-23-11
Where Have The Good Men Gone?, Wall Street Journal, 02-19-11
Why Men Pop The Question, CNN, 02-14-11
The End Of Middle America? Working Class White Families Are Unraveling Before Our Eyes, New York Daily News, 12-19-10
Money Can't Fix A Family, National Post, 12-06-10
The Fragile Family Effect, Providence Journal, 11-16-10
The Fragile Family Effect, Los Angeles Times, 11-11-10
New Findings Show Just How Bad Things Are For The Kids, Washington Examiner, 11-03-10
Just What Are "Choice Mothers" Settling For?, Washington Examiner, 08-18-10
Capitalism is the Ultimate Women’s Liberation, Washington Examiner, 03-10-10
The Future of Fatherhood: In a Decade, Lots of Dads will Be Cooking and Changing Diapers, New York Daily News, 12-20-09
What the Experts Are Saying Now, Wall Street Journal, 08-25-09
Losing Confidence in Marriage, Wall Street Journal, 07-03-09
Where in the World Is Octodad?, Wall Street Journal, 02-20-09
Black Families Showing Gains?, National Review Online, 12-18-08
An Enduring Crisis for the Black Family, Washington Post, 12-06-08
The Comforts of Home, Wall Street Journal, 12-05-08
Darwinian Dating Favors Survival of the Jerkiest, New York Post, 10-19-08
Does the free market corrode moral character?, Templeton Foundation Online, 10-09-08
Man and Sillyman, Wall Street Journal, 09-20-08
Ma, ma, where’s my pa?, Los Angeles Times, 06-26-08
Where are all the breeders?, Los Angeles Times, 06-26-08
Fat kids, Time's National Shame, Los Angeles Times, 06-24-08
What's In The Teen Pregnancy Pact's Fine Print?, Los Angeles Times, 06-23-08
Among the 'Rentheads', Wall Street Journal, 06-13-08
The Child-Man, Dallas Morning News, 02-01-08
King of the Projects, Wall Street Journal, 01-18-08
Ms. Fix-It, Wall Street Journal, 01-11-08
It's a single woman's world, Dallas Morning News, 11-11-07
World Bows To The New Girl Order, The New York Times, 10-28-07
Sex And The World, New York Post, 10-21-07
The New Girl Order, Front Page Magazine, 10-15-07
Service Learning, Wall Street Journal, 10-03-07
Father's Day Without Fathers, Chicago Sun-Times, 06-17-07
The F Word, National Review Online, 06-05-07
The Incredible Shrinking Father, Chicago Sun-Times, 04-29-07
In Loco Parentis — Not, The New York Sun, 04-20-07
The Daddy Dilemma, Los Angeles Times, 04-16-07
Scenes From the Exhibitionists, Wall Street Journal, 01-12-07
Why We Love To Loathe Paris, Dallas Morning News, 12-03-06
Desperate Grannies, Dallas Morning News, 08-06-06
Big Mother Is Watching, Wall Street Journal, 08-04-06
Welfare reform worth celebrating, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 07-16-06
How Welfare Reform Worked, Chicago Sun-Times, 04-30-06
Sex Ed, Commentary, 03-15-06
The Marriage Gap, Dallas Morning News, 03-12-06
Urban Mama Chic, Wall Street Journal, 12-16-05
What's Holding Black Kids Back?, Chicago Sun-Times, 10-23-05
For All the World to See, Wall Street Journal, 09-09-05
Black America's Crisis, Dallas Morning News, 08-21-05
A Truth Buried in the Ruins of Watts, Los Angeles Times, 08-10-05
Like It Or Not, Bill Cosby Is Right, Dallas Morning News, 05-07-05
The Sisters They Ignore, The Australian News, 03-08-05
Book Review: Off the Dole, Commentary, 01-01-05
I Wed Thee . . . and Thee . . . and Thee, Wall Street Journal, 10-18-04
If It's Moore, It's Less Than Honest, Los Angeles Times, 05-11-04
Silly Laws Are No Way to Fight Bullying, Los Angeles Times, 04-18-04
Outlaw Bullies? It Just Won't Work, New York Daily News, 10-13-03
False Poverty Prophets, New York Post, 10-05-03
Michael Moore, Humbug, Wall Street Journal, 07-28-03
Bringing up parents; Observations., Commentary, 06-01-03
The Women Feminists Forgot, Wall Street Journal, 03-07-03
Feminist Fog, New York Post, 02-09-03
Unfeminist Feminists, Washington Times, 07-16-02
Femme Fatale, Commentary, 05-07-02
Anti-Social Studies, The Weekly Standard, 05-06-02
Thank Barbie for Britney, National Review Online, 05-03-02
What's News For the Experts is Common Knowledge To Most, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 03-28-02
'Zero Tolerance' Is Schools' First Line of Defense, Newsday, 04-18-01
Girls' Sexy Aspirations Are Marketers' Target, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 10-07-00
Love Among The Ruins, The Public Interest, 06-25-00
Quality Time Is Authority Time, The New York Times, 05-13-00
Get the Lawyers Out of Schools, New York Daily News, 04-16-00
This Family Shouldn't Have Been Saved, Wall Street Journal, 03-03-00
In the Rendell Era, City's Image Rose, But Key Problems Remained, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 12-30-99
"YOU CAN'T SUSPEND ME" How the Courts Armed Students with Rights - and Attitude, The New Democrat, 09-30-99
Evil & Beyond, Commentary, 09-20-99
How the Courts Undermined School Discipline, Wall Street Journal, 05-04-99
Kids Today Are Growing Up Way Too Fast, Wall Street Journal, 10-28-98
There's No Honor in Unwed Motherhood, Wall Street Journal, 08-12-98

Books

Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys, March 2011
Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age, November 2006
Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age, 2003
Ready or Not: Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future—and Ours, October 1999

City Journal articles

The Plight of the Alpha Female, Autumn 2012
The Misunderstood Gender Gap, 16 November 2012
Endangered Welfare Reform, 22 July 2012
American Caste, Spring 2012
Time for AIDS Activists to Get Real, 12 April 2012
Poverty and Newt, Winter 2012
The Empiricist, 5 March 2012
White Blight, 25 January 2012
How Brooklyn Got Its Groove Back, Autumn 2011
Steve Jobs and Other Dirty Hippies, 22 November 2011
Why the Gender Gap Won’t Go Away. Ever., Summer 2011
Still No Sign of Superman, 28 June 2011
Sarah Palin and the Battle for Feminism, Winter 2011
Fragile Urban Families, Autumn 2010
Sex-Ed Ambiguities, 4 February 2010
Femina Sapiens in the Nursery, Autumn 2009
Wise Guys in Cambridge, 4 December 2009
Getting Dads Back on the Job, 8 September 2009
Burying the Lead, 29 May 2009
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Businesswoman, Spring 2009
A Womb Not of One’s Own, Winter 2009
The Children’s Hour, 14 January 2009
Love in the Time of Darwinism, Autumn 2008
Red-State Feminism, 8 September 2008
Gloucester Girls Gone Wild, 23 June 2008
Sex on a Sugar High, 28 May 2008
May 1968: 40 Years Later, Spring 2008
Sexism Isn’t Holding Hillary Back, 28 April 2008
Child-Man in the Promised Land, Winter 2008
Psychoanalyzing the Victim, 26 October 2007
The New Girl Order, Autumn 2007
Father’s Day Without Fathers, 15 June 2007
Why We Ignore Madmen, 21 April 2007
The Brooklyn Museum Strikes Again, 3 April 2007
The Incredible Shrinking Father, Spring 2007
The New Black Realism, Winter 2007
The Trash Princess, Autumn 2006
Desperate Grandmas, Summer 2006
The Mommy-Wars Insurgency, 9 May 2006
How Welfare Reform Worked, Spring 2006
Marriage and Caste, Winter 2006
The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies, Summer 2005
Bill Cosby Is Right, Summer 2005
What’s Holding Black Kids Back?, Spring 2005
Maureen, Queen of Mean, 15 March 2005
Capitalists on Steroids, Winter 2005
Dads in the ‘Hood, Autumn 2004
I Wed Thee, and Thee, and Thee, Autumn 2004
Gay Marriage vs. American Marriage, Summer 2004
It’s Morning After in America, Spring 2004
The New Peaceniks, Winter 2004
Sleeping on Grates?, Autumn 2003
Scoring on Sex and the City, Autumn 2003
Lord of the Flies 2003, Summer 2003
Michael Moore, Humbug, Summer 2003
More Good News About Welfare Reform, Spring 2003
Dying for Love in the Middle East, 14 February 2003
Why Feminism is AWOL on Islam, Winter 2003
Robos in Paradise, Winter 2003
Robos in Paradise, 26 November 2002
Notes on Camp, Autumn 2002
The End of Herstory, Summer 2002
Fail Me, I Sue, Summer 2002
U.N. Fairy Tales About Children, 7 May 2002
Maybe It’s Time for Abstinence, 8 April 2002
The Weaker Sex?, 27 February 2002
Their Own Talib, Winter 2002
Keep On Doin’ It, Winter 2002
Earth to Ivory Tower: Get Real!, Autumn 2001
Charity for Whom?, Autumn 2001
Fear and Loathing at the Day-Care Center, Summer 2001
Is the Family Coming Back?, Summer 2001
More Columbines?, Spring 2001
Survivor:The Manhattan Kindergarten, Spring 2001
It’s Just Sex, Winter 2001
Ecstatic Capitalism’s Brave New Work Ethic, Winter 2001
Philadelphia’s Blackboard Jungle, Winter 2001
Welfare Reform’s Benefit to Kids, Autumn 2000
Doing Better Than We Thought, Summer 2000
The Children’s Defense Fund: Not Part of the Solution, Summer 2000
Who Killed School Discipline?, Spring 2000
The Right Way to Pick a Chancellor, Spring 2000
What’s Wrong with the Kids?, Winter 2000
Why Did Ed Rendell Fizzle Out?, Autumn 1999
Sign of the Times, Autumn 1999
Civil Society Blooms in New Haven, Summer 1999
Sixtiesville, Winter 1999
Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen, Autumn 1998
Slouching Towards Cloning, Winter 1998
Gee, Parent’s Count, Autumn 1997
Raising Children for an Uncivil Society, Summer 1997
Special Ed and the Feds, Summer 1997
Day-Care Hype, Summer 1997
Fixing Special Ed?, Winter 1997
At Last, A Job Program That Works, Winter 1997
My Son Hamlet, Autumn 1996
Regrets on Teen Sex, Summer 1996
Special Ed: Kids Go In, But They Don’t Come Out, Summer 1996
J. Crew U., Spring 1996
On Sesame Street, It’s All Show, Autumn 1995
The 'L' Word: Love as Taboo, Spring 1995
There Are No Individuals Here, Spring 1995
What Ending Welfare Would Do, Winter 1995
The Teen Mommy Track Autumn 1994
Up the Up Staircase Spring 1994
South Bronx Renaissance Autumn 1993
The Futile Crusade Spring 1993

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