Selected Publications
by Brad Wilcox
Soft
Patriarchs, New Men
Why Marriage
Matters, Second Edition
Oct
6, 2005 Congressional Testimony on Marriage (PDF file, 106
kb, 5 pages)
(November 2005) W.
Bradford Wilcox, assistant professor of sociology at the University
of Virginia and a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton
University, has joined the Institute for American Values' staff
as a Resident Fellow.
Professor Wilcox will be directing the Religion
and Relationships in Urban America (RRUA) Project, which will
explore the ways in which religion influences the relationships
of married and unmarried couples in urban America, with a focus
on African American and Latino couples. He will be posting comments
on the Family Scholars
Blog as he conducts his research.
We know that religion fosters higher-quality
and more stable marriages among white middle-class Americans.
This project aims to determine how religion influences the relationships
of minorities and poor Americans living in our nation's cities.
Specifically, Dr. Wilcox will examine the association between
religion and marriage, cohabitation, relationship quality, and
divorce. He will also look at the ways in which marriage norms,
social networks, and social support mediate the relationship between
religion and relationships in urban America. The project draws
on data from large-scale surveys of urban parents, as well as
interviews with clergy, laity, and unchurched adults living in
cities across the United States.
Professor Wilcox earned his undergraduate
degree at the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. at Princeton
University. Prior to coming to the University of Virginia, he
held research fellowships at Princeton University, Yale University
and the Brookings Institution.
Dr. Wilcox’s research focuses on the influence
of religious belief and practice on marriage, cohabitation, parenting,
and fatherhood. He has published articles on religion, parenting,
and fatherhood in The American Sociological Review, Social
Forces, The Journal of Marriage and Family and The
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. His first book,
Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers
and Husbands, (Chicago, 2004) examines the ways in which
the religious beliefs and practices of American Protestant men
influence their approach to parenting, household labor, and marriage.
He also chaired the team of family scholars who authored the second
edition of
Why Marriage Matters: Twenty-Six Conclusions from the Social
Sciences, released by the Institute in September 2005.
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