Kathryn Edin is professor of public policy and management at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She is co-principal investigator for “Couple Dynamics and Father Involvement,” a qualitative study of 75 low-income married and unmarried couples with young children in Chicago, Milwaukee and New York City.

W. Bradford Wilcox is director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. He is co-editor of When Marriage Disappears: The New Middle America and author of articles on domestic abuse in outlets such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., and is director of research and public education for the Council on Contemporary Families, which she chaired from 2001-04. She is the author of Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage.

Andrew J. Cherlin is a demographer at Johns Hopkins University who has commented on demographic data involving marriage and families.

June Carbone, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is co-author of Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture (2010). She has commented on demographic data involving marriage and families.

The Program for Strong African American Marriages is a five-year intervention study based at the University of Georgia. Prayer is listed as one component of the program, with participants encouraged to pray for their spouses.

Leading marriage experts, state government officials and highly respected researchers nationwide serve as the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative Research Advisory Group. The purpose of the group is to provide professional expertise to guide research efforts and to apply findings to the development of future programs and services. The website provides links to experts nationwide.

The National Healthy Marriage Resource Center is a clearinghouse for high-quality, balanced and timely information and resources on healthy marriage. The organization’s mission is to be a first stop for information, resources and training on healthy marriage for experts, researchers, policymakers, media, marriage educators, couples and individuals, program providers and others.

The Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education is dedicated to making marriage education widely available. Diane Sollee is director.