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  | | Soul Mates(1st Edition) Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos by W. Bradford Wilcox, Nicholas H. Wolfinger Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2016 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-539422-1, ISBN: 0-19-539422-4 "In 1994, David Hernandez, a small-time drug-dealer in Spanish Harlem, got out of the drug business and turned his life over to God. After he joined Victory Chapel - a vibrant Bronx-based Pentecostal church - he saw his life change in many ways: today he is a member of the NYPD, married, the father of three, and still an active member of his church. David Hernandez is just one of the many individuals whose stories inform Soul Mates, whic ..." |
 | | State of Our Unions 2009(1st Edition) Money & Marriage by W. Bradford Wilcox, Elizabeth Marquardt Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 2009 by Broadway Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-931764-17-9, ISBN: 1-931764-17-4 "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? What does evolutionary psychology and the contemporary study of finance have to tell ..." |
 | | Why Marriage Matters, Third Edition(3rd Edition) Thirty Conclusions from the Social Sciences by W. Bradford Wilcox Paperback, 44 Pages, Published 2011 by Broadway Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-931764-24-7, ISBN: 1-931764-24-7 "Like previous editions, the third edition of 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. The third edition pays particular attention to new research on the impact of cohabitation on children and families. It concludes with a “ ..." |
 | | Whither the Child?(1st Edition) by Eric P. Kaufmann, W. Bradford Wilcox Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-61205-094-2, ISBN: 1-61205-094-8 "Birth rates are falling and fertility rates are well below replacement levels. At the same time, the economic crisis has forced governments to scale back public spending, reduce child support, and raise the retirement age, causing immense social conflict. Taking a step outside the disciplinary comfort zone, Whither the Child? asks how demography affects individuals and society. What does it feel like to live in a low fertility world? Wh ..." |
 | | Whither the Child?(1st Edition) Causes and Consequences of Low Fertility by Eric P. Kaufmann, W. Bradford Wilcox Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2012 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-61205-093-5, ISBN: 1-61205-093-X "Birth rates are falling and fertility rates are well below replacement levels. At the same time, the economic crisis has forced governments to scale back public spending, reduce child support, and raise the retirement age, causing immense social conflict. Taking a step outside the disciplinary comfort zone, Whither the Child? asks how demography affects individuals and society. What does it feel like to live in a low fertility world? Wh ..." |
 | | Unequal Family Lives Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas by Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone, Laurie Fields Derose, W. Bradford Wilcox Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2018 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-108-41595-8, ISBN: 1-108-41595-4 "Across the Americas and Europe, the family has changed and marriage is in retreat. To answer the question of what's driving these changes and how they impact social and economic inequality, progressives have typically focused on the economic causes of changing family structures, whereas conservatives tend to stress cultural and policy roots. In this illuminating book, an international group of scholars revisit these issues, offering com ..." |
 | | The State of Our Unions 2011(1st Edition) When Baby Makes Three by W. Bradford Wilcox, Elizabeth Marquardt, David Popenoe, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2012 by Broadway Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-931764-25-4, ISBN: 1-931764-25-5 " "The State of Our Unions 2011: Navigating the Path to Parenthood "identifies the key cultural and social factors that make the transition to parenthood successful. At a time when many media reports and academic studies stress the difficulties of combining marriage and parenthood, "Navigating the Path" "to Parenthood "presents scholarly evidence and analysis on how to combine them successfully." |
 | | Gender and Parenthood Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives by W. Bradford Wilcox, Kathleen Kovner Kline, Kathy Kovner Kline Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2013 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-16069-8, ISBN: 0-231-16069-0 "The essays in this collection deploy biological and social scientific perspectives to evaluate the transformative experience of parenthood for today's women and men. They map the similar and distinct roles mothers and fathers play in their children's lives and measure the effect of gendered parenting on child well-being, work and family arrangements, and the quality of couples' relationships. Contributors describe what happens to brains ..." |
 | | State of Our Unions 2010(1st Edition) When Marriage Disappears: The New Middle America by Elizabeth Marquardt, W. Bradford Wilcox, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Paperback, 115 Pages, Published 2011 by Broadway Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-931764-22-3, ISBN: 1-931764-22-0 ""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. This retreat from marriage is placing the American Dream beyond the reach of many in our society, imperiling the social and economic welfare of children from middle America, and opening up ..." |
 | | Gender and Parenthood(Updated) Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives by W. Bradford Wilcox, Kathleen Kovner Kline, Kathy Kovner Kline Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 2013 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-16068-1, ISBN: 0-231-16068-2 "The essays in this collection deploy biological and social scientific perspectives to evaluate the transformative experience of parenthood for today's women and men. They map the similar and distinct roles mothers and fathers play in their children's lives and measure the effect of gendered parenting on child well-being, work and family arrangements, and the quality of couples' relationships. Contributors describe what happens to brains ..." |
 | | The State of Our Unions 2012(1st Edition) The President's Marriage Agenda by Elizabeth Marquardt, W. Bradford Wilcox, David Blankenhorn, National Marriage Project, William Bradford Wilcox, Broadway Publications Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2012 by Broadway Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-931764-38-4, ISBN: 1-931764-38-7 ""The State of Our Unions 2012: The President s Marriage Agenda" suggests family policies for our next president, whomever he may be. Leading scholars of marriage and family here come together to offer a fresh set of policy recommendations to whomever the nation elects this fall or indeed, in the future. "State of Our Unions" is an annual report that monitors the health of marriage in America, analyzes the cultural and social forces affe ..." |
 | | A Public Faith(Updated) Evangelicals and Civic Engagement (Ethics and Public Policy Center) by Michael Cromartie, Michael Emerson, John Wilson, David Sikkink, Clyde Wilcox, Jeffrey Satinover, Kurt Schaefer, David Orgon Coolidge, Professor John C. Green, Jeffrey Satinover M.D., Dr Kurt Schaefer, Rhys H. Williams, Allen D. Hertzke, Mark J. Rozell, Amy L. Sherman, W. Bradford Wilcox, R. Stephen Warner Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2003 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-3101-7, ISBN: 0-7425-3101-5 "Conservative Protestants are mentioned repeatedly in the ongoing conversation about social capital, individualism, and community in the United States. As John Wilson notes in his introduction, evangelicals are frequently discussed either as a threat to civil society or as apparent counterexamples to the prevailing view of American society's fragmentation. The essays in this volume take another look at the role of evangelicals in America ..." |
 | | The Faith Factor in Fatherhood(Updated) Renewing the Sacred Vocation of Fathering (Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory (Paperback)) by David Blankenhorn, Don E. Eberly, Contributor-Gordon Dalbey, Contributor-Barrett Duke, Contributor-Diane Knippers, Contributor-Larry Malone, Contributor-Bill Mccartney, Contributor-Myron Stoltzfus, Contributor-Robert Lewis, Contributor-Dan Coats, Contributor-Richard Land, Dr Richard Land, E. Bernard Franklin, George Gallup Jr, Michael J. Mcmanus, John W. Miller, Anthony M. Pilla, Senator Dan Coats, Don S. Browning, Wade F. Horn, Deforest "Buster" Soaries, W. Bradford Wilcox, Blankenhorn/Eberly/E Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1999 by Lexington Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-0080-6, ISBN: 0-7391-0080-7 "Edited by founder and chairman of the National Fatherhood Initiative Don Eberly, The Faith Factor in Fatherhood addresses the key role that religious institutions can play in reviving what Eberly calls the 'sacred vocation of fatherhood.' In response to the wider debate regarding the increased expectations that are being placed by policy makers on faith-based institutions to serve important public purposes, contributors to this volume g ..." |
 | | Why Marriage Matters, Second Edition(1st Edition) Twenty-Six Conclusions from the Social Sciences by W. Bradford Wilcox Paperback, 44 Pages, Published 2014 by Broadway Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-931764-10-0, ISBN: 1-931764-10-7 "Sixteen of the top scholars on family life have re-issured a joint report on the importance of marriage. First released in 2002, the newly revised edition of Why Marriage Matters highlights five new themes in marriage-related research. Since 1960, the proportion of children who do not live with their own two parents has risen sharply. This change has been caused, first, by large increases in divorce, and more recently, by a big jump ..." |
 | | Mother Bodies, Father Bodies(1st Edition) How Parenthood Changes Us from the Inside Out by W. Bradford Wilcox, Kathleen Kovner Kline Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2012 by Broadway Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-931764-36-0, ISBN: 1-931764-36-0 "Do the words “mother” and “father” mean the same thing or different things? If there are differences, do those differences matter? In Mother Bodies, Father Bodies: How Parenthood Changes Us from the Inside Out, social scientists and natural scientists come together to offer new findings on the meaning of parenthood which push the boundaries on recent assumptions" |
 | | BBC Bitesize AQA GCSE Geography Workbook by W. Bradford Wilcox Published 2019 by Pearson Education Limited, Harlow ISBN-13: 978-1-4066-8596-1, ISBN: 1-4066-8596-8 |
 | | Unequal Family Lives Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas by Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, Laurie F. Derose, W. Bradford Wilcox Published 2018 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-108-24505-0, ISBN: 1-108-24505-6 "Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, Laurie F. DeRose, W. Bradford Wilcox. Hall, Ray and Paul White, ... In Solomon W. Polacheck, ed., Worker Well-Being and Public Policy. Research in Labor ..." |
 | | Soul Mates Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos by W. Bradford Wilcox, Nicholas H. Wolfinger 248 Pages, Published 2016 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-990831-8, ISBN: 0-19-990831-1 "Amato, Paul R., Alan Booth, David R. Johnson, and Stacy J. Rogers. 2007. Alone Together: How Marriage in America Is Changing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Amato, Paul R., Laura Spencer Loomis, and Alan Booth. 1995. “ Parental Divorce, Marital Conflict, and Offspring Well-Being during Early Adulthood.” Social Forces 73: 895–915. Amato, Paul R., and Stacy J. Rogers. 1997. “A Longitudinal Study of Marital Problems and Subse ..." |
 | | Whither the Child? Causes and Consequences of Low Fertility by Eric P. Kaufmann, W. Bradford Wilcox 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-317-24911-5, ISBN: 1-317-24911-9 "Li, H., Zhang, J., and Zhu, Y. (2008). The Quantity-Quality Trade-Off of Children in a Developing Country: Identification Using Chinese Twins. Demography 45: 223 ¥243. Liu, Ruth X., Lin, Wei, and Chen, Zeng-yin. (2010). School Performance, Peer ... Population and Development Review 31, no. 1: 57¥84. Scharping, Thomas. (2003). Birth Control in China, 1949–2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development. London: RoutledgeCurzon. S ..." |
 | | Soft Patriarchs, New Men(1st Edition) How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands (Morality and Society Series) by William Bradford Wilcox Paperback, 337 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89709-7, ISBN: 0-226-89709-5 "In the wake of dramatic, recent changes in American family life, evangelical and mainline Protestant churches took markedly different positions on family change. This work explains why these two traditions responded so differently to family change and then goes on to explore how the stances of evangelical and mainline Protestant churches toward marriage and parenting influenced the husbands and fathers that fill their pews.According to ..." |
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