Ellen Marrus is co-director of the Center for Children, Law & Policy at the University of Houston Law Center.

Paul Bennett is director of the child advocacy clinic at the University of Arizona’s College of Law in Tucson.

W. George Scarlett is assistant professor of child development at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. He was an editor of the Encyclopedia of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence.

Ronald William Nelson is a Kansas family lawyer who is chairman of the custody committee of the American Bar Association’s family law section.

Lynne Marie Kohm is John Brown McCarty Professor of Family Law at Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Va. Kohm describes herself as “dedicated to family restoration through the application of Christian legal principles.” She also has a blog called Family Restoration.

Read a Jan. 28, 2013, commentary from The Washington Post about the positive contributions of faith-based initiatives.

Read a June 15, 2013 Patheos article by Terry Firma about a school teacher’s domestic violence encounter and how it effected her livelihood and job.

Anthony B. Bradley is a research fellow with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, based in Grand Rapids, Mich. Bradley has written that raising the minimum wage hurts teens and low-skilled minorities. He has linked the Black Lives Matter movement to Christianity in a commentary.

Read a Nov. 8, 2008, New York Times story about how the working poor and young are hit particularly hard by the faltering economy.