By Commission on Children at Risk 84 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-04-9
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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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By Edward J. Furton and Thomas V. Berg 362 pages | ISBN 9780935372502
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What should we do with the hundreds of thousands of frozen embryos held in fertility clinics around the world today? One solution would be adoption. Would such a course of action be moral? That is the question faced in this volume.
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By Elizabeth Marquardt, Karen Clark and Norval D. Glenn 136 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-32-2
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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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By Institute for American Values and National Center for African American Marriages and Parenting 36 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-16-2
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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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By Elizabeth Marquardt and W. Bradford Wilcox 116 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-17-9
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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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By Elizabeth Marquardt and W. Bradford Wilcox 115 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-22-3
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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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By Elizabeth Marquardt and W. Bradford Wilcox 120 pages | ISBN 9781931764254
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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By Benjamin Scafidi 44 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-14-8
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This study provides the first rigorous estimate of the costs to U.S. taxpayer high rates of divorce and unmarried childbearing both at the national and state levels.
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By W. Bradford Wilcox 44 pages | ISBN 978-1-931764-2-47 978-1-931764-28-5
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Why Marriage Matters reviews the relevant research on family topics and comes to three fundamental conclusions: marriage is an important social good, marriage is an important public good, and the benefits of marriage extend to poor and minority communities.
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