About The Authors
Norval D. Glenn is Ahsbel Smith Professor and Stiles Professor in American Studies at the
University of Texas at Austin, where he is affiliated with the Department of Sociology and the
Population Research Center. He has cone research on marriage and family relations in the
United States for thirty years. He is a former editor of Journal of Family Issues and has
served on the editorial boards of such journals as the Journal of Marriage and Family, the
American Sociological Review. the Public Opinion Quarterly. Demography, and Social Science
Research. He is Chair of the Research Advisory Group for the Texas Healthy Marriage Initiative
and is a member of the Research Advisory Group for the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative.
Thomas K. Sylvester has worked at the National Fatherhood Initiative and the
Administration for Children and Families. He is an affiliate scholar at the Institute for
American Values and a student at Yale Law School.