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The Powerlessness of the Single Woman

Dr. J.R. Bruns and R.A. Richards II • Psychology Today blog • 2011

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead broached the touchy subject of the powerlessness of single young women in her book "Why There Are No Good Men Left". She is well-credentialled to take on such a verboten topic... It turns out that today's liberated women want to marry. The problem, as Whitehead points out, is...

Elizabeth Marquardt disusses "Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Hoping for Mr. Right"

Elizabeth Marquardt • Anderson Cooper 360 • 2005

Elizabeth Marquardt discusses the IAV report "Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Hoping for Mr. Right: College Women on Mating and Dating Today" with Anderson Cooper.

Elizabeth Marquardt disusses "Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Hoping for Mr. Right"

Elizabeth Marquardt • The Today Show • 2001

Elizabeth Marquardt discusses the IAV report "Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Hoping for Mr. Right: College Women on Mating and Dating Today" with Ann Curry.

Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Hoping for Mr. Right : College Women on Mating and Dating Today

Elizabeth Marquardt, Norval Glenn • Institute for American Values • 2001

Hooking Up, Hanging Out, and Hoping for Mr. Right" describes the attitudes and values of today's college women regarding sexuality, dating, courtship, and marriage. Marriage is a major life goal for the majority of today's college women, and most would like to meet a spouse while at college; however...

Wooing the Past: Courtship Flirts With a Comeback

Karen S. Peterson • USA Today • 2000

...Dan Cere of McGill University in Montreal called for better scientific research on courtship in a report delivered last week to the Institute for American Values, a conservative think tank in New York. He believes that most who research how one finds a mate today have gone awry by cutting the ...

The Experts' Story of Courtship

Dan Cere • Institute for American Values • 2000

The new body of relationship research seldom if ever seeks to identify and examine those attitudes and practices which lead to stable marriages.

A Case for Courtship

Amy A. Kass • Institute for American Values • 1999

Courtship Anyone? Help From an Old Story

Leon R. Kass, Amy A. Kass • Institute for American Values • 1999