Elizabeth Marquardt is an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values in New York City. She is the author of Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce (Crown, September 2005). Based on the first nationally-representative study of grown children of divorce, this book challenges the idea of the �good divorce.� Marquardt argues that while an amicable divorce is better than a bitter one, even amicable divorces dramatically shape the inner lives of children. The book was featured on NBC�s Today show, CNN�s Anderson Cooper 360, and PBS�s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, as well as in Newsweek, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.
SPEAKERS BY TOPIC: The State of the Family
Elizabeth Marquardt
Maggie Gallagher
Maggie Gallagher is president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy (www.iMAPP.org), whose motto is “strengthening marriage for a new generation” and whose unique mission is research and public education on ways that law and public policy can strengthen marriage as a social institution.
David Blankenhorn
A 1998 profile in the New York Times describes Blankenhorn as a “consensus builder for a moral base in society.” Mary Ann Glendon of Harvard Law School writes: “No one writes about the crisis in American family life with more candor, intelligence, and sympathetic understanding than David Blankenhorn.” USA Today in 2000 describes Blankenhorn as “leading a grass-roots movement” to strengthen marriage. A 1995 profile in the Los Angeles Times called him “the de facto navigator” of a new fatherhood movement and the Idaho Statesman describes Blankenhorn’s 1995 book, Fatherless America, as “the bible of the fatherhood movement.” In 2005, Carl Gershman of the National Endowment for Democracy called Blankenhorn’s Islam/West project “the most effective initiative to influence opinion in the Arab world since 9/11.”
