The National Conference of State Legislatures’ website includes a summary page on marriage.

Twenty-seven bills involving marriage and family status were pending in Congress in June 2013. Track the status of these bills at Govtrack.us.

Read a Nov. 8. 2012, article from Religion News Service, posted by the Huffington Post, about gay marriage in the 2012 elections. Voters in Maine, Maryland, and Washington state voted in favor of measures legalizing gay marriage. The 2012 election brought the total number of states what allow same-sex marriage to nine.

An August 10, 2011 report from the Brookings Institution details the growing “instability” of family life among young adult couple who have finished high school but do not have a four-year college degree.

Read a June 26, 2009, New York Times article on how most Americans who discover a cheating spouse remain married to that person.

Read a Nov. 18, 2010, Pew Research Center article on a survey done with TIME magazine and complemented by an analysis of census data revealing the decline of the iconic American family and the rise of nontraditional families.

Read a Dec. 7, 2010, New York Times blog post on marriage and the culture war.

Read a Feb. 7, 2011, Christian Post article on a survey by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia showing that couples who were considering separation or divorce before the recession are reconsidering now. Thirty-eight percent of couples who were considering divorce or separation before the recession now are reconsidering. Twenty-nine percent said the recession pressured their […]

Read a Feb. 15, 2011, Baptist Press article arguing that the divorce rate among Christians is lower than other Americans’.