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Age of Unwed Mothers: Is Teen Pregnancy the Problem?
Can Government Strengthen Marriage? Evidence from the Social Sciences (NY: National Fatherhood Initiative, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, and Institute for American Values: 2004). 36pp. ISBN 1-931764-05-0. $6.00. Volume discounts available. Available online. The Course of True Love: Marriage in High School Textbooks by the Council on Families. (NY: Institute for American Values: 1998.) 28pp. ISBN 0-9659841-3-3. $7.00.
Forthcoming May 2008! For a New Thrift: Confronting the Debt Culture A Report to the Nation from The Commission on Thrift. The Future of Family Law: Law and the Marriage Crisis in North America by Dan Cere, Principal Investigator. A Report from the Council on Family Law. (NY: Institute for American Values, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, and Institute for the Study of Marriage, Law and Culture: 2005) 52pp. ISBN: 978-1-931764-08-5. Regluar price: $7.00. Discounted price: $5.00 each (for a limited time only). Volume discounts available.
Marriage and the Law: A Statement of Principles A call to the nation from family and legal scholars. (Institute for American Values: September 2006). 44 pp. ISBN 13: 978-1-931764-11-7. Regular price: $7.50. Discounted price: $5.00 each (for a limited time only). Volume discounts available.
The Motherhood Study: Fresh Insights on Mothers' Attitudes and Concerns A Report Commissioned by the Mothers' Council. Martha Farrell Erickson and Enola G. Aird, Co-Authors. (NY: University of Minnesota, University of Connecticut, Institute for American Values: 2005). 52pp. ISBN: 978-1-931764-07-1. $7.00. Available online.
New! The
Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing: First-Ever Estimates
for the Nation and for All Fifty States
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| "Hardwired
to Connect" DVD A distilled version of the Commission on Children at Risk's 2003 report, Hardwired to Connect: The New Scientific Case for Authoritative Communities. 2007. Free while supplies last. More information is available from our Center for Marriage and Families website. |
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| "Between Two Worlds" DVD | |
| 30 minute documentary narrated by author Elizabeth Marquardt and featuring interviews with seven grown children of divorce talking about faith, family of origin, and marriage hopes and fears. $12.00 plus $2.00 shipping and handling. | |
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| Family
Structure and Children's Educational Outcomes Research Brief No. 1, November 2005. |
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| Marriage
and the Well-Being of African American Boys Research Brief No. 2, November 2006. |
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| The
Other Marriage Penalty: A New Proposal to Eliminate the Marriage Penalty
for Low-Income Americans Research Brief No. 3, November 2006. |
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| Marriage
and Mental Health in Adults and Children Research Brief No. 4, February 2007. |
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| Religion,
Race, and Relationships in Urban America Research Brief No. 5, May 2007. |
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| Responding
to the Black Marriage Crisis: A New Vision for Change Research Brief No. 6, June 2007. |
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| Protectors
or Perpetrators? Fathers, Mothers, and Child Abuse and Neglect Research Brief 7, January 2008. |
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| The
Shift and the Denial: Scholarly Attitudes toward Family Change, 1977-2002 Research Brief 8, February 2008 |
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A New Revisionism: Scholarship on the Black Family since the Moynihan
Report Brief 9, Future of the Black Family Series, March 2008 |
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| What
is American’s Most Serious Social Problem? Fact Sheet No. 1, February 2006. Available online. |
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| The
Scholarly Consensus on Marriage Fact Sheet 2, February 2006. Available online. |
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| The
Health of an Institution: A United States Marriage Index Fact Sheet 3, March 2007. Available online. |
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| New!
Authoritative
Communities: The Scientific Case for Nurturing the Whole Child Between Two
Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce
The
Fatherhood Movement: A Call to Action
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| Courtship | Adulthood | Human Person | Civil Society | Fatherhood | Marriage | Family | |
CourtshipWP 73. Kass, Amy A. 1999. A Case for Courtship. (26pp.)WP 72. William Mattox, Jr. 1999. Solomon in Love: Why a 'Banned' Book of the Bible is Being Rediscovered-and What This Might Mean for the Future of Courtship. (15pp.) $5.00. WP 71. David Gilmore, Dana Mack, and Steven Nock, 1999. Marriage in the Making? A Report on the Courtship Customs of Young Americans. (19pp.) $5.00. WP 70. Norval Glenn, 1999. Courtship and Marital Choice: Why They Are Important and What We Need to Learn About Them. (30pp.) $5.00. WP 69. Amy and Leon Kass, 1999. Courtship Anyone? Help From an Old Story with a response by David Bosworth. (33pp.) $5.00. Back to Top |
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AdulthoodWP 67. David Gutmann, 1998. Adulthood and Its Discontents. (13pp.)WP 58. David Elkind, 1997. Reinventing Adulthood. (23pp.) $5.00. WP 57. Peter Uhlenberg, 1997. Changing Adulthood Changes Childhood. (34pp.) $5.00. WP 56. David Bosworth, 1997. The Sacking of Wemmick's Castle: Economic Modeling of Adult Immaturity. (34pp.) $5.00. WP 55. Amitai Etzioni, 1997. Social Adulthood: Toward A Communitarian Concept. (25pp.) $5.00. WP 54. Judith Martin ("Miss Manners"), 1997. You Make Me Feel So Old. (13pp.) $5.00. Back to Top |
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Human PersonWP 75. Jean Bethke Elshtain. 2001. Who Are We? (20 pp.) WP 66. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, 1998. The Freedom of the Human Person: Connection or Disconnection? (12pp.) $5.00.WP 65. David Blankenhorn, 1998. Two Creation Stories: The Human Person and the American Idea. (9pp.) $5.00. WP 64. Iain T. Benson, 1998. The Person and Rights Theory in American and Canadian Law. (15pp.) $5.00. WP 63. Paul C. Vitz, 1998. From the Modern Individual to the Transmodern Person. (18pp.) $5.00. WP 62. Thomas C. Kohler, 1998. Do We Own Ourselves? (7pp.) $5.00. WP 61. Kenneth L. Schmitz, 1998. Toward a Contemporary Anthropology of the Human Person. (12 pp.) WP 60. Thomas Langan, 1998. The War Over the Person. (26pp.) $5.00. Back to Top |
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Civil SocietyWP 59. Mary Ann Glendon, 1997. The Current State of the Civil Society Debate. (10pp.)WP 53. Don Eberly. 1996. The Civil Society Debate: Developments and Prospects. (76pp.) $5.00. WP 52. Christopher Beem, 1996. Civil Society in America: A Public Debate about Political Theory. (18pp.) WP 45. Jean Bethke Elshtain, 1995. Marriage and Civil Society. (15pp.) $5.00. Back to Top |
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FatherhoodWP 74. John W. Miller, 2000. The Troubled Dawn of Fatherhood. (20pp.)WP 51. David Brenner, 1996. Changes in Newspaper Coverage of Fatherhood on Father's Day from 1990 to 1995. (43pp.) $5.00. WP 47. David Gutmann, 1996. The Paternal Imperative. (16pp.) $5.00. WP 40. David Popenoe, 1993. The Fatherhood Problem. (39pp.) $5.00. WP 12. David Blankenhorn, 1991. The Good Family Man: Fatherhood and the Pursuit of Happiness in America. (34pp.) $5.00. WP 11. Karl Zinsmeister, 1991. The Nature of Fatherhood. (33pp.) $5.00. WP 10. David Popenoe, 1991. Remembering My Father: An Intellectual Portrait of "The Man Who Saved Marriages." (15pp.) $5.00. Back to Top |
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MarriageWP 50. Michael J. McManus, 1996. The Church: A Wedding Factory or a Marriage Saver? (27pp.) $5.00.WP 49. William A. Galston, 1996. Divorce American-Style. (12pp.) $5.00. WP 48. Kay S. Hymowitz, 1996. 'I Don't Know Where This is Going': What Teenagers Learn About Marriage From Television and Magazines. (29pp.) $5.00. WP 14. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, 1992. The Experts' Story of Marriage. (24pp.) $5.00. Back to Top |
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FamilyWP 39. Michael A. Rebell, 1993. Values Engagement and the Schools. (35pp.) $5.00.WP 38. Dana Mack, 1993. The Parent Crime. (55pp.) $5.00. WP 33. Richard T. Gill and T. Grandon Gill, 1993. Of Families, Children, and a Parental Bill of Rights. (73pp.) $5.00. WP 21. The Council on Families, 1991. Eight Propositions on Family and Child Well-Being. (5pp.) $5.00. WP 20. David Popenoe, 1992. The Declining American Family: Taking A Reasoned Moral Position. (19pp.) $5.00. WP 9. Mary Komarnicki, 1991. Public Attitudes Toward the American Family: An Overview of Survey Responses Covering 1963-1991. (65pp.) $5.00. WP 8. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Norval D. Glenn, and David Popenoe, 1991. Perspectives on the New Familism. (27pp.) $5.00. WP 6. William Mattox, Jr., 1991. Running on Empty: America's Time-Starved Families with Children. (28pp.) $5.00. WP 5. Christine Winquist Nord and Nicholas Zill, 1991. American Households in Demographic Perspective. (26pp.) $5.00. WP 4. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, 1991. Noble Failures: A Critical History of Family Commissions. (24pp.) $5.00. WP 3. David Blankenhorn and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, 1991. Man, Woman, and Public Policy: Difference and Dependency in the American Conversation. (25pp.) $5.00. WP 2. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, 1990. Maryland Focus Group Report on Family Time. (17pp.) $5.00. WP 1. David Blankenhorn and Ivan Sacks. (1989). How the Child Care Market Works: An Economic Analysis. (19pp.) $5.00. Back to Top |
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