State of Our Unions 2010: When Marriage Disappears finds that shifts in marriage mores, increases in unemployment, and declines in religious attendance have played a particularly important role in driving the retreat from marriage in middle America. This retreat from marriage is placing the American Dream beyond the reach of many in our society, imperiling the social and economic welfare of children from middle America, and opening up a social and cultural divide in our nation that does not bode well for the American experiment in democracy.
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W. Bradford Wilcox is director of the National Marriage Project and associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands. Elizabeth Marquardt is the director of the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values, and author of Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce.
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