Archives: Our Ideas In the News

• Values Inequality (Review of 'Coming Apart' by Charles Murray)
  W. Bradford Wilcox, Wall Street Journal, 1/31/2012
• The Coming Age of the Family Caregiver
  Amy Ziettlow, Huffington Post, 1/23/2012
• The secret to a happy marriage? Small acts of kindness
  Sarah Hampson, Globe and Mail, 1/8/12
• Marriage: Fading, fading
  Editors of the Charleston Gazette, 12/28/2011
• Common traits of long and happy marriages
  Stacy Kaiser, USA Today, 12/22/2011
• The Cratchit Tax Credit
  Ross Douthat, New York Times, 12/24/2011
• Do working moms really prefer part-time jobs?
  KJ Dell’Antonia, Motherlode (blog), New York Times, 12/16/2011
• Happy Marriages Require Generosity
  HuffPost Weddings interviews report co-author Elizabeth Marquardt, Huffington Post, 12/16/2011
• And baby makes…trouble
  Adele Horin, Brisbane Times, 12/17/2011 (Australia)
• Married couples at a record low
  Carol Morello, Washington Post, 12/13/2011
• Be kind and have sex until death do you part
  Vicki Larson, Huffington Post, 12/12/2011
• Why do so few mothers want to work full-time?
  Jessica Grose, Slate, 12/13/2011
• Want to keep the marriage healthy when the new baby comes?
  Lauren Jimeson, Babble (blog), 12/13/2011
• The Five Secrets of Happily Married Parents
  Belinda Luscombe, Time, 12/12/2011
• The key to a happy marriage?
  Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Beast, 12/9/2011
• Is parenthood the death of marital happiness?
  Rod Dreher, The American Conservative, 12/8/2011
• What Makes Couples Happy?
  ABC News, 12/8/11
• To Keep Marriage Healthy When Baby Comes, Share Housework
  Jennifer Ludden, NPR Health Blog, 12/8/2011
• Generous Couples Have Happier Marriages
  Rachel Rettner, msnbc.com, 12/8/2011
• Must parenthood make your marriage miserable?
  Elizabeth Marquardt & W. Bradford Wilcox, The Atlantic (online), 12/8/2011
• The Generous Marriage
  Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times, 12/8/2011
• Romance in College: It's complicated
  Olivia Snoddy, Fairfield Mirror, 12/7/2011 (college newspaper)
• Marriage gap grows; cohabiting becoming 'new norm'
  Lois M. Collins, Deseret News, 12/4/2011
• How unemployment is tearing America apart
  Jason Kirby, Macleans, 11/30/2011 (Canada)
• What children of divorce do and don't learn
  Judith Wallerstein, Huffington Post, 12/7/2011
• Where is the love in R and B music?
  John Blake, CNN.com, 12/3/2011
• Why children need their fathers
  David Blankenhorn being interviewed after release of Fatherless America (1995 footage recently found)
• Swedish academic argues for triparenting
  Jared Yee, BioEdge, 11/25/2011
• The Mainstreaming of Polyamory
  Rod Dreher, The American Conservative, 11/22/2011
• The Rise of Polyamory?
  Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Beast, 11/23/2011
• Get Ready for Group Marriage
  Elizabeth Marquardt, Huffington Post, 11/15/2011
• Old foes agree to agree on gay marriage
  David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch, Bloomberg View, 11/8/2011
• Is 'Intentional Parenthood' Good for Children?
  Elizabeth Marquardt, BioNews, 11/7/2011 (U.K.)
• Should there be a mandatory "cooling off" period before divorce?
  Ellie DeLano, Woman’s Day, 10/25/2011
• Reclaiming marriage
  James P. McGlone and Luciana E. Milano, Harvard Crimson, 10/25/2011
• Reinventing the Family: Good Intentions are Not Enough
  Collette Caprara, The Foundry, 10/24/2011 (blog)
• After the Wedding, What is Marriage For?
  Elizabeth Marquardt, Huffington Post, 10/24/2011
• Group suggests 1-year wait to get divorced
  Lois M. Collins, Deseret News, 10/23/2011
• Want to preserve marriages? Add a one year waiting period for divorce, says op-ed
  Debra Cassens Weiss, American Bar Association Journal Law News Now, 10/21/2011
• Divorce prevention plan advises time, talk
  Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times, 10/23/2011
• Divorcing Couples With Children Often Open To Saving Marriage
  Jennifer Lai interviews William J. Doherty, co-investigator of “Second Chances,” Huffington Post, 10/21/2011
• What is the ideal number of parents? 2? 4? 5?
  Michael Cook, BioEdge, 10/14/2011
• Delaying divorce to save marriages
  William J. Doherty and Leah Ward Sears, Washington Post, 10/20/2011
• New report criticises devaluing of biological parenthood
  Iona Institute, 10/12/2011 (Ireland)
• Divorce parties a growing trend
  Becky Yeh, OneNewsNow, 10/12/2011
• What, Me Marry?
  Katie Bolick, The Atlantic, November 2011
• Review of "The Revolution in Parenthood" by Elizabeth Marquardt
  Geert Faseur, INTAMS Journal for the Study of Marriage and Spirituality, 2011
• Not lazier, but softer: America's work ethic has not changed for the worse
  Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, New York Times ‘Room for Debate’, 10/11/2011 (blog)
• Social pathologies once thought to be province of inner cities are now afflicting small-town, working-class America
  Edmund L. Andrews, National Journal, 10/6/2011
• Anonymous No More: Child of Sperm Donor Speaks Out
  Christopher White, National Catholic Register, 10/11/2011
• One Parent or Five?
  Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet, 10/7/2011 (blog)
• Family structure said to trump 'wanted' as key to a child's outcomes
  Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times, 10/6/2011
• You Got Your Sperm Where?
  Tony Dokoupil, The Daily Beast/Newsweek, 10/2/2011
• Listen to the kids of Brad and Angelina
  Editors, Christian Science Monitor, 9/29/2011
• Some couples pull back from the brink of divorce
  Sharon Jayson, USA Today, 9/28/2011
• Why cohabiting is a bad idea for some
  Vicki Larson, Huffington Post, 9/23/2011
• Panel discussion on marriage attracts protestors
  John Wagner, Hudson Valley Your News Now, 9/26/2011
• Marriage isn't 'just a piece of paper'
  Elizabeth Marquardt, Beyond Black and White, 9/23/2011 (blog)
• Donor-conceived children use Internet to find relatives and share information
  Washington Post, 9/26/11
• Are the Lyrics on The Sing-Off Too Violent?
  Amy Ziettlow, Huffington Post, 9/25/11
• Why Cohabitation is Worse Than Divorce for Kids
  A conversation with W. Bradford Wilcox at The Washington Post, 9/9/2011
• When Marriage is for the Well Off, What Does That Mean for Our Nation?
  Editors, Battle Creek Examiner, 9/9/2011
• Broken economy, broken families
  Mitch Pearlstein, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 9/3/2011
• Marriage activists use Beyonce’s pregnancy to send message to single moms
  Jeneba Ghatt, Washington Times, 9/1/2011
• Should You Marry for the Kids?
  Brad Wilcox and other scholars debate Why Marriage Matters, New York Times Room for Debate (blog), 8/31/2011
• Census Data Reveals New Geography of Marriage for Americans
  Host Ray Suarez interviews Institute president David Blankenhorn and University of Minnesota professor Elaine Tyler May, PBS News Hour, 8/29/2011
• Cohabitation, not divorce, now biggest marriage threat
  David Blankenhorn (Sr.), Jackson Clarion-Ledger, 8/29/2011
• Shouldn't we just normalise cohabitation?
  Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet, 8/29/2011 (Australia)
• Barn är ingen mänsklig rättighet
  Anna Lagerblad, Svenska Dagbladet , 8/29/2011 (Sweden)
• The Cohabitation Revolution
  Rich Lowry, National Review Online, 8/26/2011
• Divorce is Down, and That's the Good News
  Fredericksburg (VA) Free Lance-Star, 8/21/2011
• Is Marriage Important for Children?
  Ben Hillyer, Natchez Democrat, 8/19/2011
• Taking Sides Over Shacking Up
  Adele Horin, Sydney Morning Herald, 8/20/2011 (Australia)
• U.S. Cohabitation Rate Eclipses Divorce
  UPI, 8/21/2011
• Unmarried with Children: Kids More Likely to Have Unmarried Parents than Divorced Ones
  Monica Bielanko, Babble (blog), 8/23/2011
• 'Why Marriage Matters' Study Says Cohabiting Parents Do Kids Harm
  Katherine Bindley, Huffington Post, 8/20/2011
• The marriage gap that’s destroying Middle America
  Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet, 8/19/2011
• The Divorce Paradox
  Maggie Gallagher, Real Clear Politics, 8/18/2011
• Cohabitation has replaced divorce as biggest threat to children
  David Bohon, The New American, 8/18/2011
• The Call to Generation X to Reform Health Care
  Amy Ziettlow, Huffington Post, 8/12/2011
• Report: Cohabitation a threat to child welfare, 'multiple transitions' and lack of stability cited
  Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times, 8/17/2011
• Parents choose cohabiting over marriage
  Lisa Belkin, Motherlode blog, New York Times, 8/17/2011
• Cohabitation is only a problem because it's not normal yet
  Lauren Sandler, Slate, 8/17/2011
• Is shacking up bad for the kids?
  Tralee Pearce, Toronto Globe and Mail, 8/17/2011 (blog)
• Children with cohabiting parents on the rise
  Joyce Chen, New York Daily News, 8/17/2011
• More Unwed Parents Live Together, Report Finds
  Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times, 8/16/2011
• Family Happiness and the Overbooked Child
  Alina Tugend, New York Times, 8/12/2011
• Divorce reform could save billions in government aid
  Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times, 8/15/2011
• Study: Are Cohabiting Parents Bad for Kids?
  Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 8/16/2011
• Marriage: Teetering in America
  The Charleston Gazette (editorial), 8/6/11
• A Call to Save Marriage in America
  David Yount, Scripps Howard News Service, 7/27/2011
• Delaware: Fewer University Grads Marrying Each Other
  Marina Koren, The News Journal, 7/9/2011
• Marriage's Foundations Being Eroded by Intent
  Rebecca Hagelin, The Washington Times, 7/10/2011
• To Kevork or Not to Kevork, That is the Question
  Amy Ziettlow, Huffington Post, 7/13/2011
• Complicated Family Structures: Is More Openness the Answer?
  Elizabeth Marquardt, The Corner (blog of National Review Online), 7/6/2011
• On Second Thought, Don't Get Married
  Neil Clark Warren, founder of eHarmony, Huffington Post, 7/5/2011
• Fix Families, Economy Will Follow
  Mitch Pearlstein, Weekly Standard, reprinted at National Public Radio, 6/30/2011
• For Richer, for Smarter
  The Economist, 6/23/2011
• Setting Marriage Straight
  Linda Hirshman, Slate, 6/26/2011
• Divorce Is So Out of Style
  Irin Carmon, Jezebel (blog), 6/20/2011
• How Divorce Lost Its Groove
  Pamela Paul, New York Times, 6/19/2011
• The Rights of the Donor Conceived
  Elizabeth Marquardt, The Corner (blog of National Review Online), 6/20/2011
• 'Good family man' deserves recognition in society
  David Blankenhorn (Sr.), Jackson Clarion-Ledger, 6/10/2011
• Loving vs. Virginia, Apples vs. Oranges
  Glenn T. Stanton, The Corner (blog of National Review Online), 6/15/2011
• Ruling Gives Rights to Donor-Conceived Tots
  Susan Martinuk, Calgary Herald, 5/27/2011
• Aging and the Mind-Body Disconnect
  Amy Ziettlow, Huffington Post, 5/29/11
• The Sad Consequences of 'Shacking Up'
  Trevor Thomas, American Thinker (blog), 5/29/2011
• It's about them — and us
  Patrick McIlheran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/23/2011
• B.C. Judge Rules in Favour of Offspring of Anonymous Sperm Donors
  Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun, 5/19/2011
• End of Life Care
  Dr. Robert Zieve interviews FamilyScholars blogger Amy Ziettlow
• Wedding Madness Meets Marriage Phobia
  Colleen Carroll Campbell, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 5/12/2011
• Better to Stay in a Bad Marriage? How Researchers are Squelching Science
  Steve Wetherbe, National Catholic Register, 5/9/2011
• Donor-Conceived Children in Search of their Biological Histories
  Marcy Darnovsky, Psychology Today blog, 3/11/2011
• What price baby bliss?
  Damian Adams, MercatorNet, 5/5/2011
• First Comes Baby, Then, Maybe, Marriage
  Ana Veciana-Suarez, Miami Herald, 5/6/2011
• Broken marriages draining tax coffers
  Lois M. Collins, Deseret News, 4/30/11
• Responding to Tragedy, Restoring the World
  Amy Ziettlow, Huffington Post, 3/21/11
• Will and Kate's Story is Our Story
  Linda Malone-Colon, Richmond Times Dispatch, 4/27/11
• Why I'm Watching the Royal Wedding
  Elizabeth Marquardt, National Review Online’s The Corner, 4/26/11
• Creating Sacred Space in Life and Death
  Amy Ziettlow, Huffington Post, 3/10/11
• Why Do Blacks Care About the Royal Wedding?
  Michelle Drayton, Afro.com, 4/26/11
• Advice Books for Divorcing Parents
  Judith Wallerstein, Huffington Post, 4/16/11
• Divorced and Doomed to Die Alone?
  Vicki Larson, Huffington Post, 4/12/11
• Marriage First, Then a Baby, Key to Successful Future
  David Blankenhorn (Sr.), Jackson Clarion-Ledger, 3/25/11
• Elas querem saber quem são seus pais
  Rachel Costa, ISOTE Independente, 3/18/11 (Brazil)
• Divorcing Hype From Reality in Facebook Stats
  Carl Bialik, Wall Street Journal (blog), 3/11/11
• Co-Parenting Before Conception?
  Elizabeth Marquardt, Huffington Post, 2/25/11
• Donor Conceived and Out of the Closet
  Alessandra Rafferty, Newsweek, 2/25/11
• Murky Business of Donor Conception is Having a Brutal Effect on the Offspring
  Angela Shanahan, The Australian, 2/19/11
• Modern Family
  Elizabeth Marquardt in studio with Milt Rosenberg, Extension 720 WGN Radio, 2/14/11
• How Divorce Affects Money Habits
  Jill Krasny, MainStreet.com, 2/15/11
• Student-Run Group Targets 'Hook-Up' Culture at Ivy League Schools
  Lauren Green, Fox News, 2/14/11
• Non-Profit Hospices: On the Road to Extinction?
  Amy Ziettlow, Huffington Post, 2/10/11
• Calling Grown Children of Divorce – Let's Embrace Thrift and Have a Financial Plan
  Elizabeth Marquardt, Huffington Post, 2/9/11
• For Some, a Recession-Proof Marriage
  Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times, 2/7/11
• Study shows recession has weighed heavily on American marriages
  Annys Shin, Washington Post, 2/8/11
• Happy National Marriage Week!
  FamilyScholars blog, 2/7/11
• The Powerlessness of the Single Woman
  Dr. J.R. Bruns and R.A. Richards II, Psychology Today blog, 2/7/11
• What Women Want and How Men Behave
  Brad Wilcox and Alexandra Burt, Minnesota Public Radio, 1/28/11
• The Untold Story of Sperm-Donor Children
  Christine A. Scheller, Her.maneutics, the Christianity Today blog for women, 1/28/11
• When Marriage Disappears
  Glenn Loury of Brown University and Rich Lowry of National Review, New York Times’ Bloggingheads.tv, 1/5/11
• In Middle America Marriage is in Trouble
  Charles D. Schmitz and Elizabeth A. Schmitz, Psychology Today blog, 1/4/11
• The pain of anonymous parentage
  Michael Cook, MercatorNet, 1/26/11 (Australia)
• Treating the Body as a Sacred Home
  Amy Ziettlow, Huffington Post, 1/20/11
• If you would be free, be thrifty: The first National Thrift Week in America in 45 Years Promotes a Neglected Virtue
  Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet, 1/19/11 (Australia)
• Sperm Donor Kids Speak Out: Our Biological Dads Matter to Us
  Elizabeth Marquardt, Huffington Post, 1/19/11
• Motherhood's Hit to Happiness
  Mary Pilon, Wall Street Journal blog, 1/13/11
• Deterioration of marriage is harmful trend
  David Blankenhorn (Sr.), Jackson Clarion-Ledger, 1/10/11
• Love in Middle America: "It's Complicated"
  Amber and David Lapp, First Things On the Square, 1/7/11 (blog)
• Why 'family' is always the starting point and the end
  Linda and Richard Eyre, Deseret News, 1/9/11
• A Brownback idea even liberals might like
  Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 1/5/11
• Kansas Gov.-elect Sam Brownback reiterates arguments against “marriage penalty” for those receiving welfare
  Scott Rothschild, Lawrence Journal-World, 1/5/11
• Zachary may feel like Elton's motherless child
  Greg Donnelly, The Australian, 1/5/11
• Yes, That's So Wrong
  Kathryn Lopez, Townhall.com, 12/22/10
• The Middle Class Constantly Seeks Stability
  Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, New York Times “Room for Debate” blog, 12/23/10
• The Spirituality of Children of Divorce
  Elizabeth Marquardt, Huffington Post, 12/22/10
• Finding God in the ICU
  Amy Ziettlow, Huffington Post, 12/21/10
• Finding God in the ICU
  Amy Ziettlow, Huffington Post, 12/21/10
• The end of middle America? Working class white families are unraveling
  Kay Hymowitz, New York Daily News, 12/19/10
• Why the Ring Matters
  W. Bradford Wilcox, New York Times “Room for Debate” blog, 12/20/10
• 'Marshall Plan' for the Marriage Gap
  Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times, 12/13/10
• Is Marriage in Trouble?
  Mary Pilon, Wall Street Journal blog, 12/17/10
• Why the Marriage Gap is Bad for America
  Leah Ward Sears, CNN.com, 12/16/10
• For richer, but not for poorer
  Charles A. Donovan, Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/15/10
• Marriage and Middle America
  Peter Wehner, Contentions, the blog of Commentary Magazine, 12/13/10
• Is the Institution of Marriage Still Relevant?
  Brad Wilcox debates Stephanie Coontz, “Radio Times” on NPR’s WHYY Philadelphia, 12/14/10
• For richer or for poorer?
  Julie Delcour, Tulsa World, 12/12/10
• Marriage: American Decline
  Editors, Charleston Gazette, 12/12/10
• Blue collar America's turn away from marriage
  Susan Reimer, Baltimore Sun, 12/13/10
• Marry Your Soul Mate? Researchers Say Not So Fast
  Amy Lee, Huffington Post, 12/10/10
• The Real Crisis of the Working Class
  Rich Lowry, New York Post, 12/10/10
• Levi's Story: Retreating from Marriage in America
  Kathryn Jean Lopez interviews Brad Wilcox, National Review Online, 12/10/10
• Technology and Divorce: A Correlation?
  Amy Lee, Huffington Post, 12/9/10
• Un interesante estudio norteamericano
  Ignacio Socias, La Razon, 12/8/10
• Class and the Culture War II
  Ross Douthat, New York Times blog, 12/9/10
• Class and the Culture War
  Ross Douthat, New York Times blog, 12/8/10
• Marriage is Crumbling in Blue-Collar America
  Amanda Paulson, Christian Science Monitor, 12/8/10
• Marriage Will Decline Until "We" Takes Over "I"
  Janet Edwards, Washington Post “On Faith” blog, 12/8/10
• Is Divorce Bad for Our Economy?
  Amy Lee, Huffington Post, 12/8/10
• Following a Divine Road Map: A Lesson Inspired by the Life of Elizabeth Edwards
  Amy Ziettlow, Huffington Post, 12/8/10
• Marriage is Just for the Rich
  Hanna Rosin, Slate, 12/6/10
• The Power Mom Backlash
  Danielle Friedman, The Daily Beast, 12/6/10
• Young Families Delay Marriage, Not Parenthood
  Talk of the Nation on National Public Radio, 12/6/10
• High School Graduates Losing Faith in Marriage
  Mary Pilon, Wall Street Journal blog, 12/6/10
• Marriage: Marginalized in the Middle
  Brad Wilcox and Chuck Donovan, Christianity Today, 12/6/10
• More education means more faith in marriage, new report says
  Antoinette Campbell, CNN, 12/6/10
• The State of Our Unions: New Study Reports Growing 'Marriage Gap'
  Amy Lee, Huffington Post, 12/6/10
• Unmarried With Kids: A Shift in the Working Class
  Jennifer Ludden, Morning Edition on National Public Radio, 12/6/10
• The Changing Culture War
  Ross Douthat, New York Times, 12/6/10
• Decades After Divorce, Caregiving and Grieving Challenge Grown Children of Divorce
  Elizabeth Marquardt, Huffington Post, 12/2/10
• Marriage is Alive and Well
  Kathleen O’Brien, Washington Post, 11/27/10
• Is Marriage Just Evolving?
  Amber and David Lapp, NRO’s The Corner, 11/24/10 (blog)
• The Reality of Death and the Truth of Advent (or, Should My Family Use the Lego Advent Calendar?)
  Amy Ziettlow, Huffington Post, 11/26/10
• The Recession and Divorce
  Doug Kepanis, Huffington Post, 11/18/10
• Among the poor, cohabitation rarely produces fairy-tale endings
  Colleen Carroll Campbell, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 11/18/10
• For Sperm Donor Offspring, Parents' Divorce Brings a One-Two Punch
  Elizabeth Marquardt, Huffington Post, 11/17/10
• The New Stigma: Children of Divorce are No Longer Stigmatized, Until They Start Dating
  Elizabeth Marquardt, Huffington Post, 11/16/10
• Why Your 'Good Enough' Marriage is Good for Your Kids
  Elizabeth Marquardt, Huffington Post, 11/12/10
• I'm worried that my husband, who has donated sperm, may be traced by his biological offspring
  Sarah Abell, Telegraph, 11/9/10 (U.K.)
• Blacks struggle with 72 percent unwed mothers rate
  Jesse Washington, Associated Press, 11/6/10
• Memorial celebrates Div School's Browning
  Sara Hupp, Chicago Maroon, 10/26/10 (University of Chicago student newspaper)
• 'Cryo kids' Crying Out To Know Their Dads
  By Denise Ryan, Montreal Gazette, 10/29/10
• The Poor’s Good Marriages
  David Lapp, First Things “On the Square” blog, 10/28/10
• Test tube parenthood on trial
  Barbara Kay, National Post, 10/25/10 (Canada)
• Johnny has two mommies – and four dads
  Drake Bennett, Boston Globe, 10/24/10
• Donor Kids: How Sperm and Egg Donor Babies Grow Up
  Ceridwen Morris, Babble (blog), 10/22/10
• Sociologists bring themselves to notice the obvious
  Patrick McIlheran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel blog, 10/20/10
• Emma Donoghue and her partner had two children via one sperm donor
  Aine Nugent, Irish Independent, 10/9/10
• It's the Marriage Rate, Stupid
  Mona Charen, Real Clear Politics, 10/1/10
• Invisible Dads
  Alisa Harris, World Magazine, 10/9/10 (subscription required)
• Adoption Season for Evangelicals
  Naomi S. Riley, Wall Street Journal, 9/24/10
• Activists Unite For 'No Wedding, No Womb'
  Michele Martin, “Tell Me More,” NPR News, 9/22/10
• Children of divorce vow to break cycle, create enduring marriages
  Stephanie Chen, CNN.com, 9/22/10
• Vow Renewals: When One 'I Do' Is Not Enough
  Anna Jane Grossman, New York Times, 9/17/10
• Infertility Wars
  Doree Shafrir, Newsweek, 9/16/10
• Study Finds Wider View of ‘Family’
  Sam Roberts, New York Times, 9/15/10
• Milwaukee losing war on infertility?
  Jenna Kashou, Milwaukee Magazine, 9/7/10
• Hopeless romantics yearn for soul mates, study finds their bliss won't last
  Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times, 9/6/10
• 2 Papers, 2 Different Worries About Twenty-Somethings
  Heather Horn, Atlantic Wire, 9/2/10
• Younger working class miss out on jobs, marriage, religion
  Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet, 9/7/10 (Australia)
• What to expect after breast cancer surgery
  Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times, 9/6/10
• Can This Three-Month Romance Be Saved?
  Caroline Dworin, Newsweek, 9/2/10
• The Generation That Can't Move On Up
  Andrew J. Cherlin and W. Bradford Wilcox, The Wall Street Journal, 9/2/10
• More couples in TN live together, have kids before marriage
  Bob Smietana, The Tennessean, 9/1/10
• Amid Downturn, Divorce and Infidelity Decrease
  Mary Pilon, Wall Street Journal blog, 8/31/10
• What Women Want, For Real
  Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online, 8/30/10
• When Home Prices, IRAs and Marriages Go South: Divorcing During a Downturn
  Mary Pilon, Wall Street Journal blog, 8/30/10
• Donor offspring, like other fatherless children, face a lifetime of challenges
  Randy Hicks, The Daily Tribune, 8/16/10
• How Deep is Your Love?
  J. R. Bruns, Psychology Today blog, 8/24/10
• Daughter on quest to find sperm donor
  Kyle Martin, Augusta Chronicle, 8/20/10
• Aniston's wrong: Stats prove Dads matter, a lot
  Susan Martinuk, Calgary Herald, 8/20/10
• Confessions of a Sperm Donor: Hundreds of Kids — Films 'The Switch' and 'The Kids Are Alright' Paint Pretty Picture of an Ugly Fertility Industry
  Susan Donaldsen James, ABC News, 8/19/10
• Just what are "choice mothers" settling for?
  Kay Hymowitz, Washington Examiner, 8/18/10
• His Sperm, My Choice
  Alicia Montgomery, National Public Radio blog, 8/17/10
• 'Cryokids': Sperm donor children lobby to end anonymous donations
  Rosemary Black, New York Daily News, 8/17/10
• My Daddy's Name is Donor
  Host Michel Martin interviews Alana Stewart, Wendy Kramer, and Elizabeth Marquardt on National Public Radio’s “Tell Me More,” 8/16/10 (audio and transcript)
• Sperm-donor Offspring Seek Rights and Respect
  Faryl Ury, Associated Press news video, 8/16/10 (video)
• No Mr. Right? More women start families via artificial insemination
  Jessica Yadegaran, Contra Costa Times, 8/16/10
• Children of sperm donors finding each other on the web
  Julia James, Scope (blog of the Stanford School of Medicine), 8/15/10
• Why are women walking away from marriage?
  Christine Wicker, Dallas Morning News, 8/15/10
• David Blankenhorn didn't mess up in Prop 8 Trial
  Jennifer Roback Morse, Ruth Institute blog, 8/11/10
• Does your marriage have a prayer?
  Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA Today, 8/11/10
• Jennifer Aniston in the No Spin Zone – romantic comedies go sperm for the summer
  Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online, 8/16/10
• Couples Who Pray Together, Happier Together
  Essence.com, 8/13/2010
• Sperm-donors' kids seek more rights and respect
  David Crary, Associated Press, 8/15/10
• Sex, Marriage and Upper Class Obligation
  Ross Douthat, New York Times blog, 8/10/10
• Study: African American Couples More Likely to Share Core Religious Beliefs
  Donna St. George, The Washington Post, 8/11/10
• With the web, curiosity and luck, sperm donor siblings connect
  Stephanie Chen, CNN.com, 8/11/10
• Mine, yours and ours: Marriage and your money
  Michael Berg, FoxBusiness.com, 8/11/10
• Vial of Tears
  Noelle Daly, The American Interest, September/October 2010
• Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women?
  Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura Hamilton and Paula England, Contexts (published by the American Sociological Association), summer 2010
• Now What for Marriage?
  Dana Mack, Wall Street Journal, 8/6/10
• Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Debating the Research on Donor Offspring
  Elizabeth Marquardt, BioNews, 8/4/10 (U.K.)
• Shared suppers a recipe for healthy families
  Vicki Ortiz Healy, Chicago Tribune, 8/4/10
• Pro-Prop 8 Witness Laments Reaction
  Duncan Osborne, Gay City News, 8/4/10
• Child of divorce left up in the air
  Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times, 8/2/10
• Sperm bank ban in Turkey sparks debate
  Sera De Vor, Hürriyet Daily News, 7/30/10 (Turkey)
• Sperm bank peddles celebrity look-alike donors
  by Hillary May, Washington Times, 7/29/10
• The Kids Are Not All Right
  Elizabeth Marquardt, First Things, 7/28/10
• Finding your sperm donor not as easy as in movies
  Emily Fuggetta, Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/27/10
• Family Plot (review of 'The Kids are All Right')
  Ross Douthat, National Review (subscription required), 8/2/10
• Like many, Levi and future Palin in-laws have some smoothing out to do
  Stephanie Chen, CNN, 7/22/10
• Donor-Conceived Individuals’ Right to Know
  Vardit Ravitsky and Joanna E. Scheib, Bioethics Forum, The Hastings Center, 7/20/10 (online publication)
• Save us from scientism
  David Warren, Ottawa Citizen, 7/18/10
• For the Love of Money
  CNN blog, 7/16/10
• Sperm donors' kids miss half their identity
  Susan Martinuk, Calgary Herald, 7/16/10
• The Debate Over Sperm Donors
  Brad Wilcox debates Debora Spar on National Public Radio’s ‘On Point,’ 7/14/10
• Donating sperm leads to distraught offspring
  Monica Kortsha, The Horn (University of Texas at Austin Student Newspaper), 7/1/10
• Born Identity: Elizabeth Marquardt on Anonymous Sperm Donation in the United States
  Kara Rogers, Encyclopaedia Britannica Blog, 7/1/10
• Sperm Donor Kids Grow Up
  Host Virginia Prescott interviews Elizabeth Marquardt and Alana S., “Word of Mouth” on New Hampshire Public Radio, 6/30/10
• Interfaith marriages are rising fast, but they're failing fast too
  Naomi Schaefer Riley, Washington Post, 6/6/10
• Sperm banks at center of discussion about emotional effects on children
  Angela Townsend, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 6/29/10
• The Divided World of the Child
  Gordon E. Finley and Seth J. Schwartz, Family Court Review, 7/10
• Caroline was fathered by a sperm donor – so why does she bitterly resent the stranger who gave her life?
  By Frances Hardy and Diana Appleyard, Daily News (U.K.), 6/24/10
• The Kids Are Just Fine, Thanks (Letters)
  Jenifer Lingeman, Letter to The Nation, 6/21/10
• Sperm donation: The US regulatory vacuum and its ethical ramifications
  Vardit Ravitsky, BioNews (U.K.), 6/21/10
• A Father's Day reminder: They're still essential
  Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 6/20/10
• Let's hear it for stepfathers, too
  Leah Ward Sears, CNN.com, 6/18/10
• Men were dealt a blow in recession
  W. Bradford Wilcox and David Lapp, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 6/18/10
• Where is sperm donor 2035?
  David Lapp, Atlanta Journal Constitution, 6/18/10
• Daddy Was Only a Donor
  W. Bradford Wilcox, The Wall Street Journal, 6/18/10
• Is New York Ready for No-Fault Divorce?
  Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Room for Debate blog, New York Times, 6/15/10
• Happy Seed Provider’s Day, Dad
  Barbara Kay, National Post, 6/15/10 (Canada)
• A thought-provoking study examines the lives of people fathered by sperm donors
  Karen Kaplan, Booster Shots blog, Los Angeles Times, 6/14/10
• Do Kids Still Matter to Marriage?
  Tara Parker-Pope, Well blog, New York Times, 6/14/10
• The Sperm-Donor Kids Are Not Really All Right
  Karen Clark and Elizabeth Marquardt, Slate, 6/14/10
• Donor conception a minefield of unregulated practice
  Breda O’Brien, The Irish Times, 6/12/10
• First US study of attitudes towards donor conception published
  Antony Blackburn-Starza, BioNews (U.K.), 6/10/10
• Les personnes nées d’un don de sperme veulent connaître leur géniteur
  Brigitte Perucca, Le Monde, 6/8/10 (French language)
• A Family, No Matter How It's Created
  New York Times Letters to the Editor in Response to Ross Douthat Column, 6/4/2010
• Ethical Decision
  Fox religion reporter Lauren Green interviews Elizabeth Marquardt, 6/4/10 (televised online only)
• Orphaned at Conception
  Michael Cook, MercatorNet (Australia), 6/1/10
• When Daddy's Name is Donor
  Maggie Gallagher, RealClearPolitics, 6/3/10
• Sperm-donor offspring support idea, but have concerns about father, half-siblings
  Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times, 6/1/10
• Who's your daddy? Testing the test tube
  Mindy Jacobs, Calgary Sun, 6/1/10
• Who Did I Come From? The Children of Donor Dads Grow Up
  Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet (Australia), 5/31/10
• The Birds and the Bees (via the Fertility Clinic)
  Ross Douthat, New York Times, 5/30/10
• 3 innovative proposals
  The Washington Post, 5/14/10
• Marriage crisis is bipartisan imperative
  Sam Brownback and Linda Malone-Colón, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 4/14/10
• "¡Menos mal que el comercio desemen se ha globalizado!"
  Lluis Amiguet, La Vanguardia, 4/9/10 (Spanish language)
• How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America
  Don Peck, The Atlantic, 3/10
• Did I Get Married Too Young?
  David Lapp, Wall Street Journal, 2/11/10
• Love, yes, but be committed to marriage
  Leah Ward Sears, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2/10/10
• Separate and Unequal Mating Markets
  Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Room for Debate blog, New York Times, 1/14/10