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Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

When this article appeared in Theology Matters in 2004, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Ph.D., co-directed the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University. She wrote extensively on issues of marriage, family and child wellbeing and was the author of The Divorce Culture and the Atlantic Monthly article, “Dan Quayle Was Right.”

Two essays from two issues, 2002 to 2004

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2004

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  1. The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America 2003Issue 2, 2004

    With Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

    Is marriage still about raising children? Barbara Dafoe Whitehead and David Popenoe report that Americans increasingly treat it as a bond between adults, and trace what…

2002

One essay

  1. The State of Our UnionsIssue 2, 2002

    With Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

    Is marriage getting stronger or weaker? David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead of the National Marriage Project sum up the trends in divorce, cohabitation and young…

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