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.

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

The Barna Group provides a summary page on family and kids.

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 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. 18, 2011, Christianity Today article on the marriage economy.

Read a May 26, 2011, New York Times article on new census data, analyzed by the Brookings Institution, showing that married couples represented 48 percent of American households in 2010. A fifth are traditional families, down from a quarter a decade ago and 43 percent in 1950.

Read a July 3, 2011, essay in The New York Times about the increasing disparity in marriage patterns of the affluent and the poor.