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Elizabeth Marquardt is editor of FamilyScholars.org, where she also blogs. She is vice president for family studies and director of the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values in New York City. In spring 2013, she will be a lecturer in American Studies at Lake Forest College.

Marquardt is co-investigator most recently of My Daddy’s Name is Donor, which examines the identity and kinship experiences of adults conceived through sperm donation. The study was the subject of reporting and commentary in publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Slate and abroad in outlets including Le Monde and the Irish Times. Marquardt is author of Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce (Crown, 2005). Based on the first nationally-representative study of grown children of divorce in the U.S., she argues that while an amicable divorce is better than a bitter one, even amicable divorces profoundly shape the inner lives of children. She is also co-principal investigator of a national study, Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Hoping for Mr. Right: College Women on Dating and Mating Today.

Marquardt has appeared often on NBC’s Today Show as well as on broadcast news programs on CNN, ABC, FOX, CBS, and PBS and scores of radio programs including BBC World News and national and local NPR stations. Her popular writings have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Slate, Huffington Post, The Atlantic (online), and elsewhere. She has co-authored academic articles published in Social Science Research, John Marshall Law Review, and Sociology of Religion, and has book chapters in forthcoming scholarly volumes from New York University Press and Paradigm Press. She is a frequent presenter to academic and professional groups in the U.S. and internationally.

Marquardt holds a Master’s in Divinity and an M.A. in international relations from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in history and women’s studies from Wake Forest University. She is married to Lake Forest College politics professor Jim Marquardt, with two children.

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Selected Publications

• “Elderly Murder-Suicide: Should We Praise Old Men Who Kill Their Wives and Themselves?” Huffington Post, April 9, 2012
• “Do Mothers Matter?” The Atlantic, February 10, 2012
• “How to Keep Parenthood from Making Your Marriage Miserable,” Elizabeth Marquardt and W. Bradford Wilcox, The Atlantic (online), December 8, 2011.
• One Parent or Five? A Global Look at Today’s New Intentional Families (New York: Institute for American Values, 2011)
• “My Daddy’s Name is Donor: A New Representative Study of Adults Conceived Through Sperm Donation,” (New York: Institute for American Values, 2010). With Norval D. Glenn and Karen Clark.
• “The Kids Are Not All Right,” First Things, July 28, 2010
• “The Sperm Donor Kids are Not Really All Right,” with Karen Clark, Slate, June 14, 2010.
• “The New Alone,” Washington Post, January 27, 2008.
• “When 3 is Really a Crowd,” New York Times, July 16, 2007.
• “Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce,” (Crown, 2005).
• “Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Hoping for Mr. Right: College Women on Dating and Mating Today,” (New York: Institute for American Values, 2001). With Norval D. Glenn.

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