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DOUGLAS ALLAN, Ph.D., Burnaby Mountain Endowed Professor of economics at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. He received his M.A. (1984) from SFU, and his Ph.D. (1988) from the University of Washington where he studied under Professor Yoram Barzel. He was an assistant professor at Carleton University in Ottawa before moving to SFU in 1990. His field of study is the economics of transaction costs and property rights, and he has applied this methodology to understanding institutions like marriage and divorce, welfare, the church, farm organization, homesteading, and military history. Professor Allen is the author of two popular undergraduate microeconomic theory textbooks (one coauthored with Curt and Diane Eaton), has edited a C.D. Howe Volume on the family, and has published over 30 articles in professional journals. MIT Press recently published his monograph (with Dean Lueck) entitled "The Nature of the Farm: Contracts, Risk, and Organization in Agriculture". | |
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DAVID BLANKENHORN, Founder and President of the Institute for American Values, a private, non-partisan organization devoted to contributing intellectually to the renewal of marriage and family life and the sources of competence, character, and citizenship in the United States. He helped to found the National Fatherhood Initiative, serving as that organization's founding chairman and also serves on the board of directors of the National Parenting Association. In 1992, he was appointed by President Bush to serve on the National Commission on America's Urban Families. A frequent lecturer, his ideas have been cited in scores of publications including Time, Newsweek, and the New York Times. He has co-edited five books including the most recent entitled The Book of Marriage: The Wisest Answers to the Toughest Questions (2001). He lives in New York City with his wife, Raina, and their three children. |
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DON BROWNING, Ph.D., Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Ethics and the Social Sciences, the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. Don Browning has interests in the relation of religious thought to the social sciences, specifically in the way theological ethics may employ sociology, psychology, and the social scientific study of religion. A student of psychology, he has special interests in psychoanalysis, self-psychology, object-relations theory, and evolutionary psychology, and has written on the cultural, theological, and ethical analysis of the modern psychologies. An interest in issues and methods in practical theology led to his work, A Fundamental Practical Theology: With Descriptive and Strategic Proposals. As Director of the Lilly Project on Religion, Culture, and the Family, Professor Browning is now working on issues pertaining to the shape and future of the postmodern family. He has co-authored From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate. He is an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). |
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ALLAN CARLSON, Ph.D., Distinguished Fellow for Family Policy Studies at the Family Research Council. In this position, Dr. Carlson performs scholarly research and writing on domestic and international, social, cultural, economic, and political trends affecting marriage and family life today. Dr. Carlson is President of the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society in Rockford, Illinois. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences. He was appointed by President Reagan to the National Commission on Children and has testified as an expert witness before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Family and Human Services, the U.S. Attorney General's Task Force on Family Violence and the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces. His books include Family Questions: Reflections on the American Social Crisis; The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics; From Cottage to Work Station:The Family's Search for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age; and The Agrarian Mind. He holds an A.B. Degree from Augustana College and a Ph.D. in Modern European History from Ohio University. Dr. Carlson and his wife, Betsy, live outside Chicago and have four children. |
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DANIEL CERE, Ph.D., Founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Marriage Law and Culture. Daniel Cere is also the co-director of the Newman Institute of Catholic Studies in the Faculty of Arts at McGill University. His research interests are in the area of ethics, marriage and family. He recently co-authored a book entitled Divorcing Marriage: Unveiling the Dangers in Canada's New Social Experiment with Douglas Farrow. This book is a collection of very readable essays on the political ramifications of gay marriage in Canada. |
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DOUGLAS FARROW, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Christian Thought for the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University. He came to McGill in 1998 from King's College London and writes and lectures in theology, ethics and intellectual history. He is a consulting editor of the International Journal of Systematic Theology and a co-editor of Ashgate's Great Theologians series. He has been a regular contributor to Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie and to Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (4th ed.). His recent book is entitled Divorcing Marriage: Unveiling the Dangers in Canada's New Social Experiment was co-authored with Dan Cere. |
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MAGGIE GALLAGHER, President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy in Washington, DC. She is a nationally syndicated columnist, the author of three books on marriage including The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better-Off Financially ( co-authored with Prof Linda Waite, University of Chicago) and a leading voice of the new marriage movement. National Journal named her to the 2004 list of the most influential people in the same-sex marriage debate. She appears frequently on major TV and radio and often lectures at colleges, universities and law schools. She has testified as an expert witness on marriage before the U.S. Senate and in various state legislatures. Her writings on marriage have appeared in The New York Times, The Weekly Standard, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as scholarly journals such as the Louisiana Law Review, and the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy. Maggie graduated from Yale in 1982 and currently lives with her husband and two children in Westchester, New York. |
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CHRISTOPHER GRAY, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University, Montreal, QC. He received his doctorate of philosophy from the Catholic University of America in Washington DC in 1970, and his civil and common law degrees from McGill University in Montreal in 1978 and 1979. He is the editor of The Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia (1999), a two volume work published by Garland in 1999, and is also the associate editor of the IVR’s Encyclopedia of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, published online from Lund SW in 2005. Professor Gray specializes in the philosophy of law, and has published in professional and philosophical journals on philosophy of law and associated topics. He is married to Kathleen Gray, founder of the Centre for Reproductive Loss, and is father to 3 children and 3 grandchildren. |
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Wade F. Horn, Ph.D., was nominated by President George W. Bush to be the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families at the United States Department of Health and Human Services on February 28, 2001, and was confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate. With a $47 billion budget, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is responsible for programs that promote the social and economic well-being of America's children, youth and families. Since 2001, Dr. Horn has played a key role in implementing several of President Bush's initiatives to strengthen children and families. These efforts include leading the President's Healthy Marriage Initiative, which seeks to incorporate marriage education and resources into the broad array of social services ACF provides. Prior to his appointment at ACF, Dr. Horn was President of the National Fatherhood Initiative, whose mission is to improve child well-being by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, committed and responsible fathers in their lives.
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ELIZABETH MARQUARDT, an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values in New York City. A former chaplain at Bates College, she has quickly emerged as a popular commentator on college life due a recent ground-breaking study on women's attitudes about sex and dating on campus. Her co-authored book is titled Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Hoping for Mr. Right: College Women on Dating and Mating Today. The study was featured in several national publications including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Time, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, and by columnists William Raspberry and Maureen Dowd. She has recently completed a national study of the moral and spiritual lives of children of divorce; a topic she began studying while in graduate school at the University of Chicago. The report, entitled The Moral and Spiritual Lives of Children of Divorce, will be published in September 2005. |
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JOHN W. MILLER has combined an active life of scholarship, writing, university teaching, and pastoral leadership. He is professor emeritus at Conrad Grebel University College, an affiliate of the University of Waterloo in Ontario. The author of numerous articles and books, titles include Jesus at Thirty: A Psychological and Historical Portrait (1997); Calling God "Father": Essays on the Bible, Fatherhood & Culture (1999); and most recently, a commentary on Proverbs, and How the Bible Came to Be, Exploring the Narrative and Message (2004). After completing graduate studies in English Literature at New York University and doctoral studies in theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and the University of Basel in Switzerland, he taught at several colleges and seminaries in the Chicago area and worked for a decade in psychiatric rehabilitation, prior to joining the Religious Studies faculty of Conrad Grebel College in 1969. He and his wife Louise live in Kitchener, Ontario. They have three children, eight grandchildren and one great grandchild. |
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DAVID POPENOE, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, as well as co-director of The National Marriage Project. He is the former social and behavioral sciences dean, and former chairman of the sociology department and graduate program. He is the author or editor of ten books, including War Over the Family, Life Without Father: Compelling New Evidence that Fatherhood and Marriage are Indispensable for the Good of Children and Society, Disturbing the Nest: Family Change and Decline in Modern Societies, and Promises to Keep: Decline and Renewal of Marriage in America. In the 1970s he was chairman of the board of the American Institute of Family Relations, the nation's first family counseling and research organization, and he holds the Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. |
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CHARLES J. REID, JR., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis. He has a Ph.D. in history and degrees in American law and canon law. He has written extensively on the history and purposes of marriage. His recent book, "Power Over the Body, Equality in the Family," focuses on the role rights played in the medieval canon law of marriage. He argues that the family was clearly conceptualized legally as series of interlocking rights and duties that embraced husband, wife, and children. Dr. Reid has also published a series of articles in American law reviews that consider the Judeo-Christian foundations of the American law of marriage. |
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MARGARET SOMERVILLE, Ph.D., Samuel Gale Professor of Law, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, and Founding Director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law. She serves on many editorial boards, advisory boards and boards of directors and has an extensive national and international consulting, publishing, and speaking record as well as a frequent commentator in all forms of media. Professor Somerville authored The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit and Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide; has edited Do We Care? Renewing Canada's Commitment to Health; and co-edited Transdisciplinarity: reCreating Integrated Knowledge. In 2003 she became the first recipient of the UNESCO Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science. |
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BARBARA DAFOE WHITEHEAD, Ph.D., Co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. An award-winning journalist, Whitehead writes and speaks about social and cultural issues for professional, scholarly and popular audiences. She is also the author of Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of the New Single Woman, (Broadway Books, 2003) and The Divorce Culture: Rethinking Our Commitment to Marriage and Family (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997) which received the Books for Better Life Award. She is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Lawrence University. She earned a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, studied at Columbia University as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in American social history at the University of Chicago. |
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GLENN T. STANTON, Director, Social Research & Cultural Affairs for Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, CO. He is also the Senior Research Analyst for Focus specializing in Marriage & Sexuality. He is currently serving the Bush administration as a consultant on increasing fatherhood involvement in the Head Start program as well. A graduate of the University of West Florida, Mr. Stanton earned a master’s degree in interdisciplinary humanities with an emphasis in philosophy, history and religion and has had the opportunity to lecture in each of these disciplines. He is the author of Why Marriage Matters: Reasons to Believe in Marriage in Postmodern Society, which examines the rich and diverse benefits marriage brings to adults, children and society. He is also a contributor to two books, The Fatherhood Movement: A Call to Action and The Little Big Book for Dads. He has just finished a new book, My Crazy, Imperfect Christian Family (NavPress, 2004). As well as publishing numerous articles in a variety of national magazines, he is also a winner of the 2001 Amy Foundation Writing Award. Glenn is featured in the PBS documentary, "Affluenza" and has been a guest on numerous Focus on the Family radio broadcasts as well as Ken Myer’s “Mars Hill Audio Journal.” The Stanton family lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado |
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W. BRADFORD WILCOX, Ph.D., Assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, focusing on the topics of religion, fatherhood, marriage, and parenting. He is the author of Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Wilcox has also published in the American Sociological Review, First Things, the Public Interest, and the Responsive Community. He is currently a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University. He has previously held research fellowships at the Brookings Institution, Princeton University, Yale University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Wilcox's research on religion and the family has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, USA Today, and numerous NPR stations. A Roman Catholic, Dr. Wilcox is married and the father of three children. |
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KATHERINE K. YOUNG is a James McGill Professor, Professor of Hinduism in the Faculty of Religious Studies, and member of the Centre of Medicine, Ethics, and Law at McGill University. She publishes in the areas of Hindu and Buddhist ethics, comparative ethics and religion, gender and religion, and South Indian Hinduism. With Paul Nathanson, she has written on a trilogy about ethics and gender - the first volume Spreading Misandry: the Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture was published in 2001 and the second volume Legalizing Misandry: from Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination against Men will be released early 2006. Recently, she has done comparative research on the topic of marriage from a cross-cultural perspective. |
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