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- The National Marriage Project (NMP) is a nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and interdisciplinary initiative located at the University of Virginia. The Project's mission is to provide research and analysis on the health of marriage in America, to analyze the social and cultural forces shaping contemporary marriage, and to identify strategies to increase marital quality and stability.
State of Our Unions Reports
The State of Our Unions 2011: When Baby Makes Three: How Parenthood Makes Life Meaningful and How Marriage Makes Parenthood Bearable (PDF)
The State of Our Unions 2010: The New Middle America (PDF)
The State of Our Unions, Marriage in America 2009: Money & Marriage (PDF)
2008 Update to the 2007 State of Our Unions (PDF)
Social Indications Tables and Graphs
2008 Update to the 2007 State of Our Unions (PDF)
The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America, 2007 (PDF)
The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America, 2007 (PDF)
The Future of Marriage in America
The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America, 2006 (PDF)
Life Without Children - A look at the increasing portion of the life course spent without children in the household and how it is changing the pattern of American adult lives. Includes updated indices of marriage, divorce, cohabitation, loss of child centeredness, fragile families, and teen attitudes. And an examination of an American "marriage gap."
The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America, 2005 (PDF)
Marriage & Family: What Does the Scandinavian Experience Tell Us? Comparison of family trends & child wellbeing in the US and Sweden. Includes updated indices of marriage, divorce, cohabitation, loss of child centeredness, fragile families, and teen attitudes. July 2005.
The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America, 2004 (PDF)
The Marrying Kind: Which Men Marry and Why - Review of the 2004 survey of young men 25 to 24. June 2004.
The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America, 2003 (PDF)
Marriage and Children: Coming Together Again? Looks at the decline of child centeredness in American society. Updated indices. June 2003.
The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America, 2002 (PDF)
Why Men Won't Commit. Summary of focus groups of young men 20 to 33 conducted around the country. Updated indices. June 2002.
The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America, 2001 (PDF)
Who Wants to Marry a Soul Mate? Highlighting the results of a 2001 poll examining attitudes about dating and marriage among Americans in their 20s. June 2001.
The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America, 2000 (PDF)
The National Marriage Project's annual report on the status of marriage in America. Updated indices and highlights of focus-group discussions around the country. June 2000.
The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America, 1999 (PDF)
The first edition includes indices of trends in marriage, divorce, unmarried cohabitation, fragile families with children, and teen attitudes about marriage and family. July 1999.