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"Family Values in a Historical Perspective" by Lawrence Stone, 1994

U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services: Fatherhood Initiative

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USA TODAY: "Cohabitation is replacing dating," July 17, 2005

Atlantic Monthly: "Divorce and the Family in America" by Christopher Lasch, November 1996

Minneapolis Star Tribune: "A gender gap for the devout" by H.J. Cummins, July 28, 2005

Washington Post: "For Better, For Worse" by Stephanie Coontz, May 1, 2005

Washington Post: "Unmarried because they value marriage" by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas, May 1, 2005

Indianapolis Star: "Muslim family values" by Robert King, September 10, 2005

Dallas Morning News: "Dumbfounded by divorce" by Christine Wicker, June 17, 2000

Washington Post: "Marriage fund for poor proposed" by Spencer Hsu, July 22, 2005

NPR: "Government's new role could be marriage broker" by Rachel Jones, July 30 2005

Washington Times: "More homes in U.S. go solo" by Cheryl Weitzstein, August 17, 2005

Washington Post: "Poverty and the Father Factor" by William Raspberry, August 1, 2005

The Economist: Millennium Issue: The Family, December 23, 1999

Emory University Center for the Study of Law and Religion: Sex, Marriage and Family and Religions of the Book

Focus on the Family

Indiana Family Institute

American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on the Family

Seymour Institute: "God's Gift: A Christian Vision of Marriage and the Black Family"

Alternatives to Marriage Project

"Study of Interfaith Kids Upends Ideas of Identity" by Jennifer Siegel, July 8, 2005

Dovetail Institute for Interfaith Family Resources

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Search Institute: Faith Communities

To Lead a Jewish Life: Education for Living

The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (1965)

University of South Carolina: Institute for Families in Society

Boston Globe: "One man's fantasy" by Adrian Walker, July 25, 2005

Washington Post: "Why our black families are failing" by William Raspberry, July 25, 2005

Washington Post: "Poor marriages, poor health" by William Raspberry, October 24, 2005

NPR: "Out of wedlock births in black America" by Clarence Page, September 27, 2005

African American Healthy Family Initiative

Shiloh Family Life Center Foundation

Smart Marriages

Healthy Marriage Initiative

Seattle Post Intelligencer: "Kansas senator leads push vs. gay marriage" by Sam Hananel, November 10, 2005

Frontline: Let's Get Married

Presbyterian Church USA: Transforming Families [pdf]

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