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PUBLIC CONVERSATION
See the most recent event held in our Center for Public Conversation:
Why Marriage Matters:
Thirty Conclusions from the Social Sciences
A Conversation on August 16 with Elizabeth Marquardt, director of the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values; Amy L. Wax, Robert Mundheim Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School; and W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, University of Virginia and chair of the team of scholars that authored the third edition of Why Marriage Matters; hosted by Jonathan Rauch, guest scholar at the Brookings Institution. Watch Here
THE REPORT IS ALREADY GENERATING DISCUSSION ACROSS AMERICA AND INTERNATIONALLY:
More Unwed Parents Live Together, Report Finds
Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times, August 16, 2011
"The number of Americans who have children and live together without marrying has increased twelvefold since 1970, according to a report released Tuesday."
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Study: Are Cohabiting Parents Bad for Kids?
Jennifer Ludden, NPR, August 16, 2011
"The study is put out by the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values, groups whose missions include strengthening marriage and family life."
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National Marriage Project: 'Why Marriage Matters' Study Says Cohabiting Parents Do Kids Harm
Katherine Bindley, Huffington Post, August 20, 2011
"Unmarried, cohabiting parents may be putting their kids at risk for a host of personal problems-- at least according to a new report from the University of Virgina's National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values."
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Cohabitation is Not a Problem Because It Isn't Normal Yet
Lauren Sandler, Slate, August 17, 2011
"As [Institute senior fellow W. Bradford] Wilcox said at an event last night at the Institute for American Values, where he discussed the study, 'cohabitation and kids don't mix.'"
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Not married with children? Report says cohabiting and kids don't mix
Lylah M. Alphonse, Shine.Yahoo.com, August 16, 2011
"In the report, 'Why Marriage Matters: Thirty Conclusions from the Social Sciences,' researchers say that couples who live together without getting married are far less stable than married couples-and it's the kids who struggle the most."
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Marriage? Let me think about it
Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, Chicago Tribune, August 16, 2011
"In a just-released report, [a group of scholars] called cohabiting couples 'the largest unrecognized threat to the quality and stability of children's family lives.'"
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New Report: Cohabitation Has Superseded Divorce as Key Risk Factor to Children in America
UVA Today, August 16, 2011
"The new report, 'Why Marriage Matters: Thirty Conclusions from the Social Sciences,' is co-sponsored by the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values and the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia."
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Children living with cohabiting, unmarried parents on the rise, likely to have problems at school
Joyce Chen, New York Daily News, August 17, 2011
"A new report [Why Marriage Matters] reveals that attention should be focused less on splitsville spouses and instead more on an overlooked demographic: cohabitating adults."
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Report: Cohabitation a threat to child welfare
Cheryl Wetzstein, Washington Times, August 17, 2011
"'Today, the rise of cohabiting households with children is the largest unrecognized threat to the quality and stability of children's family lives,' the scholars said in 'Why Marriage Matters, Third Edition: Thirty Conclusions From the Social Sciences.'"
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Increased cohabitation rates mean more instability for children
Kevin J. Jones, Catholic News Agency, August 17, 2011
"[Institute senior fellow W. Bradford] Wilcox is the lead author of 'Why Marriage Matters: Thirty Conclusions from the Social Sciences,' a report from the New York-based Institute for American Values' Center for Marriage and Families."
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Taking Sides Over Shacking Up
Adele Horin, Sydney Morning Herald, August 19, 2011
"A new study from the United States claims parents who cohabit without benefit of marriage now pose a greater threat to children's welfare than divorce."
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The marriage gap that's destroying America
Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet.com, August 19, 2011
"While the attention of the world was riveted on the anarchy in England, two reports were published in the United States warning that family instability is making serious inroads into the working class and lower middle class of that country . . . "
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Report: More unwed parents living together
Elizabeth Cunningham Perkins, DigitalJournal.com, August 19, 2011
"Two pro-marriage groups released a study this week stating American children are twelve times more likely now than in 1970 to be raised by parents who live together without getting married."
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The Divorce Paradox
Maggie Gallagher, RealClearPolitics, August 19, 2011
"The Institute for American Values' new updated report, 'Why Marriage Matters: 30 Conclusions From the Social Sciences,' is signed by an impressive list of family scholars ranging from professor John Gottman to professor Brad Wilcox."
Read the Article | and read at the National Organization for Marriage blog
Report: Cohabitation is bad for kids
Carolyn Robertson, BabyCenter.com, August 19, 2011
"Researchers in the US released a report this week that indicates parents who cohabitate rather than wed may be putting their kids at risk."
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Is marriage important for children?
Ben Hillyer, Natchez Democrat, August 19, 2011
"More and more couples these days decide to have children without first getting married, a report from the the Institute for American Values reported Tuesday."
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Editor's Notebook
The Capital, August 20, 2011
"The University of Virginia-based National Marriage Project, along with the Institute for American Values, has issued a report arguing that the quality and stability of children's family lives is eroding . . . "
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US cohabitation rate eclipses divorce
UPI.com, August 21, 2011
"'The divorce rate for married couples with children has returned almost to the levels we saw before the divorce revolution kicked in during the 1970s. Nevertheless, family instability is on the rise,' [Institute senior fellow W. Bradford] Wilcox says in a statement."
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Cohabitation poses greater threat than divorce to kids' well-being
AndraNews.net, August 21, 2011
"A new study has revealed that the rise of cohabiting households with children is a greater threat to the quality and stability of children's lives and is also the main reason for the increase of family instability."
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Hitched, and un-: Divorce is down; that's the good news
Fredericksburg Free Lance Star, August 21, 2011
"The study found that nearly a quarter of children today are born to cohabiting couples, and another 20 percent will be exposed to that lifestyle during their childhood."
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More cohabitation, less stability for kids?
Southern California Public Radio, August 22, 2011
"The report found that cohabiting parents are more than twice as likely to break up; the study's sponsor argues that these findings prove that cohabitation puts children at risk by placing them in unstable circumstances."
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The following blogs covered the new report.
Cohabitation Compounds Divorce as a Threat to America's Children
Collette Caprara, The Foundry, August 22, 2011
"Research recently released by The National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values (the third edition of the Why Marriage Matters series) reveals that more than 40 percent of children in the country spend some portion of their lives in a household with a cohabiting parent before they are 12 years old."
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Why Marriage Matters
Richard Whitmire, Education Week, August 16, 2011
"Richard Whitmire, a former editorial writer at USA Today and past board president of the National Education Writers Association, is a frequent commentator. . . ."
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Report calls cohabitation new "threat" to child well-being
Jeremy Olson, Minneapolis Star-Tribune blog, August 16, 2011
"Released Tuesday by the Institute for American Values, the report highlights the fact that American children are now more likely to live with unmarried, . . . "
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Is shacking up bad for the kids?
Tralee Pearche, The Globe and Mail, August 17, 2011
"The National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values suggest cohabitation has replaced divorce as the great destabilizer."
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Are Cohabiting Parents Bad for Kids?
Amelia T., Care2, August 17, 2011
"The number of American couples who are cohabiting and having children without getting married has skyrocketed since the 1970s, and this spells doom for the American family, according to the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values."
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Cohabiting parents seen a danger to children's welfare
CatholicCulture.org, August 17, 2011
"The study, entitled 'Why Marriage Matters,' shows that children living with unmarried parents are more likely to suffer from abuse and neglect, and far more likely to see their parents break up before they are teenagers."
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Cohabitation Soars, Children Suffer: Study
CultureNews, August 17, 2011
"The study is put out by the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values, groups whose missions include strengthening marriage and family life."
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Cohabitation Has Replaced Divorce as Biggest Threat to Children
Dave Bohon, New American, August 18, 2011
"The study, released by the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values, found that while, toward the end of the 20th century, 'divorce posed the biggest threat to marriage in the United States,' in today's world 'the rise of cohabiting households with children is the largest unrecognized threat to the quality and stability of children's family lives.'"
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Is Cohabitation Unstable in Europe Too?
MarriageDebate.com, August 18, 2011
"Even in Sweden, children are worse off when mom and dad cohabit."
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How Cohabiting Couples Are Harming the American Family
Wes Woodell, WestCoastWitness.com, August 18, 2011
"[Why Marriage Matters'] major conclusion: cohabiting couples are causing family instability for children in American households to increase."
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Is 'cohabitation' bad for kids?
Opinion Staff, Palm Beach Post - The Opinion Zone, August 19, 2011
"The Center for Marriage and Families [at the Institute for American Values] released a study concluding that while divorce rates for families with children have fallen to the lowest rate in decades, too many children's lives remain unstable . . . "
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Julie Hanlon Rubio on Why Marriage Matters: Children Born to Cohabiting Parents Are at Risk
Julie Hanlon Rubio, Catholic Moral Theology, August 19, 2011
"A new study put out by the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values calls attention to the rise in children being raised by single parents, including those who are cohabiting with a partner."
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Marriage Matters--Conclusions from the Social Sciences
Breaking Christian News, August 19, 2011
"The intact, biological, married family remains the gold standard for family life in the United States."
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