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Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

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born

January 01, 1944 in Rochester , Minnesota, The United States

gender

female

website

http://marriage.rutgers.edu/codirectors.html

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Social Sciences

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Co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University. She lectures and writes about family and child well-being. On April 28, 2004, she gave testimony before the US Senate sub-committee on children and families.

She grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, 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 from the University of Chicago. She holds an honorary doctorate in letters from Lawrence University.

She her husband, Ralph Whitehead Jr., have three children and live in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Books by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

Average rating: 3.33 · 43 ratings · 7 reviews · 7 distinct works

	The Divorce Culture 3.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of the New Single Woman 3.12 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of the New Single Woman 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	The Wonderful Chirrionera And Other Tales From Mexican Folklore 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Thrift or Debt: Which Direction Is Right for Texas? by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Charles E. Stokes, Stephen Reeves 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Franklin's Thrift: The Lost History of an American Virtue by David Blankenhorn (Editor), Barbara Dafoe Whitehead (Editor), Sorcha Brophy-Warren (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem by David Blankenhorn, David Popenoe, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead 4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“The notion of marriage as a union between two sovereign selves affirms virtues like independence, initiative, and self-reliance. Yet while attending to the virtues associated with the integrity of the individual, our contemporary discourse on marriage entirely neglects the virtues that are essential to the integrity of bonds--virtues like fidelity, kindness, forgiveness, modesty, gratitude, loyalty, patience, generosity, and selflessness.”
― Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, The Divorce Culture

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“We've come a long way from the time when the crowning achievement in a woman's life was her youthful marriage. And many would agree that this represents progress for women. But when did the search for someone to marry become self-absorbed and pathetic? This absence of social sympathy for women's ambitions to marry is all the more striking because the social world has cared so deeply about virtually every other aspect of these privileged young women's inner and outer lives. (...) The achievement of a good marriage is the one area of life where the most privileged, accomplished, and high achieving young women in society face a loss of support and sympathy for their ambitions and where the social expectations are for disappointment and failure, not success.”
― Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of the New Single Woman

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