Research, and joint public statements on the challenges facing families and civil society. The Institute brings together approximately 100 leading scholars-from across the human sciences and across the political spectrum-for interdisciplinary deliberation, collaborative The Institute for American Values is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening families and civil society in the U.S.
At the Center’s website,, bloggers include emerging voices and senior scholars with distinctive expertise and points of view tackling today’s key debates on the family. children growing up with their two married parents. The Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Valuesĭirected by Elizabeth Marquardt, the mission of the Center for Marriage and Families is to increase the proportion of U.S. Bradford Wilcox, associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. The nmp was founded in 1997 by family scholars David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead. The nmp has five goals: 1) publish The State of Our Unions, which monitors the current health of marriage and family life in America 2) investigate and report on the state of marriage among young adults 3) provide accurate information and analysis regarding marriage to journalists, policy makers, religious leaders, and the general public-especially young adults 4) conduct research on the ways in which children, race, class, immigration, ethnicity, religion, and poverty shape the quality and stability of contemporary marriage and 5) bring marriage and family experts together to develop strategies for strengthening marriage. The Project’s mission is to provide research and analysis on the health of marriage in America, to analyze the social and cultural forces shaping contemporary marriage, and to identify strategies to increase marital quality and stability. The National Marriage Project (nmp) is a nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and interdisciplinary initiative located at the University of Virginia. Isabel Sawhill, The Brookings Institutionīarbara Dafoe Whitehead, Institute for American Values Glenn, University of Texas at AustinĮlizabeth Marquardt, Institute for American Valuesĭavid Popenoe, Rutgers University, emeritus Neil Gilbert, University of California at Berkeley
Ellison, University of Texas at San Antonio
Doherty, University of MinnesotaĬhristopher G. Produced annually, it is a joint publication of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values.įounding Co-Editors: David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe WhiteheadĪ Board of Advisors made up of the following distinguished scholars and professionals guides the work of the National Marriage Project. The State of Our Unions monitors the current health of marriage and family life in America.
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