Why Marriage Matters, Third Edition
Thirty Conclusions from the Social Sciences
Center for Marriage and Families, Institute for American Values
National Marriage Project, University of Virginia
This statement comes from a team of family scholars chaired by W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia.
For more information about this report, or to schedule an interview with W. Bradford Wilcox, please contact David Lapp at 212-246-8927 or dlapp@americanvalues.org.
- Press release (PDF)
- Executive summary (PDF)
- Full report: "Why Marriage Matters" (PDF)
- Endnotes: "Why Marriage Matters" (PDF)
The Authors
W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia
Jared R. Anderson, Kansas State University
William Doherty, University of Minnesota
David Eggebeen, Pennsylvania State University
Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at San Antonio
William Galston, Brookings Institution
Neil Gilbert, University of California at Berkeley
John Gottman, University of Washington
Ron Haskins, Brookings Institution
Robert I. Lerman, Urban Institute
Linda Malone-Colón, Hampton University
Loren Marks, Louisiana State University
Rob Palkovitz, University of Delaware
David Popenoe, Rutgers University
Mark D. Regnerus, University of Texas at Austin
Scott Stanley, University of Denver
Linda Waite, University of Chicago
Judith Wallerstein, University of California at Berkeley
About the Center for Marriage and Families
The Center for Marriage and Families is located at the Institute for American Values, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening families and civil society in the U.S. and the world. Directed by Elizabeth Marquardt, the Center's mission is to increase the proportion of U.S. children growing up with their two married parents. At the Center's website, FamilyScholars.org, bloggers include emerging voices and senior scholars with distinctive expertise and points of view tackling today's key debates on the family.
About the National Marriage Project
The National Marriage Project, founded in 1997 at Rutgers University, is a nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and interdisciplinary initiative now located at the University of Virginia. 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.