Broadway Publications

Broadway Publications is the imprint of the Institute for American Values. Founded in 1987, the Institute for American Values is nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose mission is to study and strengthen key American values. The Institute brings together leading scholars from across the human sciences and across the political spectrum for interdisciplinary deliberation, collaborative research, and to issue joint public statements. For more information visit www.americanvalues.org.

Does the Shape of Families Shape Faith?: Calling the Churches to Confront the Impact of Family Change By Elizabeth Marquardt
120 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-37-7
Paper Paper Retail Price: $10.00



Does the Shape of Families Shape Faith?: Calling the Churches to Confront the Impact of Family Change

Social scientists, psychologists, and practical theologians come together to offer new findings on how growing up in a divorced family impacts religious formation, with implications for faith communities.

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For a New Thrift: Confronting the Debt Culture By Commission on Thrift
68 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-15-5
Paper Paper Retail Price: $7.00



For a New Thrift: Confronting the Debt Culture

Signed by sixty-six scholars and cosponsored by eight leading think tanks, For a New Thrift describes the growing polarization in today’s financial landscape between two very different kinds of institutions.

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Generosity Unbound: How American Philanthropy Can Strengthen the Economy and Expand the Middle Class By Claire Gaudiani
294 pages | ISBN 9781931764193 9781931764186 9781931764216
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Generosity Unbound: How American Philanthropy Can Strengthen the Economy and Expand the Middle Class

In Generosity Unbound, Claire Gaudiani mounts a spirited defense of philanthropic freedom addressed to conservatives, liberals and centrists. She acknowledges the good intentions of those who favor greater regulation of private philanthropy, but powerfully demonstrates the dangers of this approach.

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Hardwired to Connect: The New Scientific Case for Authoritative Communities By Commission on Children at Risk
84 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-04-9
Paper Paper Retail Price: $7.00



Hardwired to Connect: The New Scientific Case for Authoritative Communities

This pioneering report draws upon a large body of recent research showing that children are biologically primed (“hardwired”) for enduring connections to others and for moral and spiritual meaning.

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Mother Bodies, Father Bodies: How Parenthood Changes Us from the Inside Out By Kathleen A. Kovner Kline and W. Bradford Wilcox
120 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-36-0
Paper Paper Retail Price: $10.00



Mother Bodies, Father Bodies: How Parenthood Changes Us from the Inside Out

Do the words “mother” and “father” mean the same thing or different things? If there are differences, do those differences matter?

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My Daddy’s Name Is Donor: A New Study of Young Adults Conceived through Sperm Donation By Elizabeth Marquardt, Karen Clark and Norval D. Glenn
136 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-32-2
E-Book Retail Price: $10.00



My Daddy’s Name Is Donor: A New Study of Young Adults Conceived through Sperm Donation

My Daddy’s Name Is Donor reveals stunning findings about the lives of adult offspring of sperm donation, one of the most common reproductive technologies and one that has been practiced widely in the United States and around the world for decades.

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The Marriage Index: A Proposal to Establish Leading Marriage Indicators By Institute for American Values and National Center for African American Marriages and Parenting
36 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-16-2
Paper Paper Retail Price: $5.00



The Marriage Index: A Proposal to Establish Leading Marriage Indicators

In The Marriage Index, a bipartisan group of scholars and leaders has carefully developed a set of Leading Marriage Indicators—fundamental, well-chosen measurements that accurately reveal the direction and overall health of marriage as a social institution.

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The State of Our Unions 2009: Money & Marriage By Elizabeth Marquardt and W. Bradford Wilcox
116 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-17-9
Paper Paper Retail Price: $10.00



The State of Our Unions 2009: Money & Marriage

State of Our Unions 2009 seeks to answer the following questions: How is the Great Recession affecting the institution of marriage, as measured by changes in marriage and divorce rates in the United States? How do family finances—especially credit card debt and family assets—shape the quality and stability of contemporary married life in America?

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The State of Our Unions 2010: When Marriage Disappears By Elizabeth Marquardt and W. Bradford Wilcox
115 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-22-3
Paper Paper Retail Price: $10.00


The State of Our Unions 2010: When Marriage Disappears

State of Our Unions 2010: When Marriage Disappears finds that shifts in marriage mores, increases in unemployment, and declines in religious attendance have played a particularly important role in driving the retreat from marriage in middle America.

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The State of Our Unions 2011: When Baby Makes Three By Elizabeth Marquardt and W. Bradford Wilcox
120 pages | ISBN 9781931764254


The State of Our Unions 2011: When Baby Makes Three

The State of Our Unions 2011: When Baby Makes Three takes a look at men and women—with and without children—to determine how parenthood is linked to the emotional welfare of adults of childbearing age.

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