Nicholas H. Wolfinger

Nicholas H. Wolfinger is Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA in 1998.

Wolfinger's books include Understanding the Divorce Cycle (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda (Springer, 2005; edited, with Lori Kowaleski-Jones), Do Babies Matter? Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower (Rutgers University Press, 2013; coauthored with Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden), and the newly released Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, & Marriage among African-Americans and Latinos (with W. Bradford Wilcox), published by Oxford University Press.

More information about Do Babies Matter? can be found on the book's website, www.dobabiesmatter.com. Read more about Soul Mates at www.soulmates-thebook.

Wolfinger's next book, The Changing Economics of Single Motherhood (with Matthew McKeever), will be published by Oxford University Press. In addition, Wolfinger is the author of about forty articles or chapters in academic journals and books. He popular writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Huffington Post, National Review, and other outlets.

Follow @NickWolfinger on Twitter, or learn more at www.nicholashwolfinger.com. Wolfinger lives in Salt Lake City and Northern California.