Family Research
A bibliography compiled by Bill Muehlenberg
Revised, August 2007
There has been an enormous amount of social science research over the past four decades documenting the importance of marriage, fatherhood and the two-parent family. So much evidence is now available that summaries of the documentation are necessary. The following volumes seek to do just that. They gather together in a single volume the many studies that show the importance of fathers, of families, and of marriage.
General Research
Blackenhorn, David, Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem. New York: Basic Books, 1995.
Christensen, Bryce, ed., When Families Fail…. The Social Costs. Lanham, MD.: The University Press of America, 1991.
O’Neill, Rebecca, Does Marriage Matter? London: Civitas, 2004.
Doherty, William, et. al., Why Marriage Matters: Twenty-One Conclusions from the Social Sciences. New York: Institute for American Values, 2002.
Horn, Wade and Tom Sylvester, Father Facts, 5th ed. Gaithersburg, MD.: National Fatherhood Initiative, 2007.
Logan, Bruce, Waking Up to Marriage. Auckland: Maxim Institute, 2004.
Maher, Bridget, ed., The Family Portrait: A Compilation of Data, Research and Public Opinion on the Family, 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Family Research Council, 2002, 2004.
Stanton, Glenn, Why Marriage Matters. Pinon Press, 1997.
Waite, Linda and Maggie Gallagher, The Case for Marriage. New York: Doubleday, 2000.
Australian Research
The following summaries include a lot of the overseas findings (especially the American and British research) but also include as much Australian data as possible.
Muehlenberg, Bill, The Benefits of Marriage. Melbourne: revised, 2007.
Muehlenberg, Bill, The Case for the Two-Parent Family. Melbourne: revised, 2007.
Muehlenberg, Bill, The Facts on Fatherlessness. Melbourne: revised, 2007.
Muehlenberg, Bill, William Doherty, et. al., Twenty-One Reasons Why Marriage Matters. Wollongong, NSW: National Marriage Coalition, 2004.
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