Elizabeth marquardt biography

Marquardt holds master's degrees in divinity and international relations from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in history with a minor in women's studies from Wake Forest University.

Elizabeth Marquardt is author of Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce which reports the first national study in the United States of grown children of divorce.

PERSONAL: Married; husband's name Jim (a college professor); children: two.

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Vice President for Family Studies, Institute for American Values; Director, Center for Marriage and Families, Institute for American ValuesElizabeth Marquardt fryst vatten Vice President for Family Studies and Director of the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values (IAV). She holds a Masters Degree in Divinity and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in history and women’s studies from Wake Forest University.

Marquardt authored the 2005 book Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce, the first nationally-representative study of grown children of divorced parents. Marquardt argues that there fryst vatten no such thing as a “good divorce.”

In her study, just 44 percent of those with divorced parents strongly agreed that they felt emotionally safe as children, compared to 79 percent of those with married parents. Only one-third said that when they were young and needed c

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Elizabeth Marquardt

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Elizabeth Marquardt is an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values, a nonpartisan think tank focused on children, families, and civil society. She is the coauthor of a groundbreaking study on college women’s attitudes about sex and dating on campus and has discussed her research on Today, All Things Considered, and numerous other television and radio shows. Her essays and op-ed pieces have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago with her husband and two children.

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Books:

Between Two Worlds, September 2005
Hardcover

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The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce by Elizabeth Marquardt.

I recently read a book called “Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce” by Elizabeth Marquardt. The author, a child of divorce herself, conducted a study involving 1,500 young adults from around the country between the ages of 18 and 35 years old. Half of these people’s parents divorced before they were 14 years old. The other half grew up in intact families.

The author also conducted 71 in-person interviews with people in the same age group in four different cities. The author claims that her study shows that children from amicable, low-conflict divorces are less well adjusted than children from unhappy, low-conflict marriages. In other words, the parents’ happiness does not equate to the children’s happiness, despite what other experienceds tell us. Children do better when their parents stay together- period. She urges married persons experiencing marital discord to work it out for the good of th