Bradford Wilcox – University of Virginia
W. Bradford Wilcox serves as the Academic Director for
Whither the Child? The Causes, Consequences, & Responses to Low Fertility. He also leads STI's
Marriage Matters Project. He is Director of
the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, and a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University.
Prof. Wilcox's research focuses on marriage and cohabitation, and on the ways that gender, religion, and children influence the quality and stability of American family life. He has published articles on marriage, cohabitation, parenting, and fatherhood in
The American Sociological Review,
Social Forces,
The Journal of Marriage and Family and
The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. His first book,
Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands, (Chicago, 2004) examines the ways in which the religious beliefs and practices of American Protestant men influence their approach to parenting, household labor, and marriage.
Prof. Wilcox is now researching the effect that gender norms, children, commitment, and religion have on the quality of contemporary American marriages. Prior to coming to the University of Virginia, he held research fellowships at Princeton University, Yale University and the Brookings Institution. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia and his Ph.D. at Princeton University.
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abstract of the paper Professor Wilcox presented for STI's
Whither the Child? experts meeting.
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Soft Patriarchs.
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