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Information for the Press, and prior media coverage:
Related Figures and Data that I get
asked for a lot:
* A figure
and worksheet describing the
increasing percentage of American couples that are interracial, by several
definitions of interracial.
* A figure and
worksheet
describing the increasing number of interracial and same-sex couples in the
US.
* A figure and worksheet
describing the decreasing support in the US for laws against interracial
marriage.
* Figures
on the phantom boomerang, describing the rise of independent living
which is the opposite of the boomerang theory that is so widely believed.
Now updated with new figures 4 and 5 showing the rise of solo living among
men and women of all ages (but especially senior women).
PRESS
Attention for my book, The Age of Independence: Interracial Unions,
Same-Sex Unions and the Changing American Family, and related issues of
family structure:
*KGO Radio San Francisco, David Lazarus
show, 1/20/2007
*Chicago Tribune, cover story, "A Cultural Taboo Fades" on the rise of
intermarriage, March 11, 2007
*USA Today, "Boomerang Generation Mostly Hype," on the growing
independence of young adults, March 14, 2007.
*Featured on NBC national nightly news with
Brian Williams, in their series on the "State of Our Unions,"
March 29, 2007, see the story and the video here. The video seems to work
better with IE than Firefox...
*USA Today, "Free as a Bird and Loving It: Being Single Has Its Benefits,"
April 12, 2007
*AP National News, picked up by many papers
including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "Interracial Marriages Surge Across the US" April
13, 2007, another link is here.
*WAOK talk radio Atlanta, Shelley Wynter
show, April 13, 2007
*Kieran Healy, blogging at Crooked Timber has some lovely things to
say about my book and about the age of independence, and about David
Brooks' typical misunderstanding of the independence of young adulthood.
*KZSU radio Lunch Special show, hosted by
Byrd, July 2,2007, interview (a 13 minute
section of the hour long show, in mp3 format, 4.5MB).
*I was a guest on Jefferson Public Radio's Jefferson Express show on October 5 (link provides
audio files for the last 10 episodes only...)
*I was quoted in a cover story in the Sunday
Oregonian, Sept 23, 2007, titled "Marriage Today: Fewer I do's and
more just I's," but no web link is currently available.
*I was quoted in a December 14, 2007 story
in The
Indian Express, about intermarriage and Indian-Americans.
*I was the September 13, 2009 guest on
KALW's Sunday morning Philosophy Talk show, talking about the postmodern
family.
*On the subject of whether the recession is
leading more single young people to live with their parents, I was quoted
at length in a June 27, 2010 article by Kathleen Lynn.
*I participated in a New York Times debate on the Boomerang generation,
December 27, 2011.
*USA Today story on marriage aspirations of singles from
February 1, 2012, quoted me.
* I was quoted in a New York Times piece on arranged marriages and love
marriages, January 20, 2013.
* On the subject of young adults living with
their parents, see The Washington Post coverage of a Pew report from May
24, 2016.
*On the subject of Barack Obama and
multiracial America, I was cited in an
interesting story by Charles Lewis in Canada's National Post, June 7,
2008. Obama's electoral success so far means this particular conversation
about race and multiraciality will continue. In the New York Times coverage
of Barack Obama's inauguration, in the January 21 2009 edition, Jodi Kantor
wrote an interesting story about Obama's multiracial ancestry, which quoted
me.
On the rise of
Interracial Marriage and Multiraciality in the US:
*In recognition of the 40th anniversary of
Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 Supreme Court decision which ruled all state
bans against interracial marriage unconstitutional, there were several
stories, including:
*Washington Post, Love is Colorblind, June 9, 2007
*Stanford Report, "Nontraditional Unions got boost from Changing Family
Structure, Sociologist Says," June 13, 2007
*The Virginian-Pilot, "Mixed-Race Marriage Gained Legal Status in Virginia 40
Years Ago," June 10, 2007
*If you have a print edition of the July,
2007 Cosmo, you'll find me on page 27.
*The USA Today quoted me in a November 8, 2011 story on the rise of interracial marriage
in the US.
*In memory of the May, 2008 passing of Mildred
Loving, one of the litigants in Loving v. Virginia, syndicated columnist Clarence Page wrote a nice column which cited me and
which makes the relevant connection between the debate over same-sex
marriage today and the legacy of Loving v. Virginia.
* The Brooklyn (New York) Historical Society
has a new exhibit, in the museum and online, called "Crossing Border,
Bridging Generations," which includes an exhibit by me, called "Interracial Brooklyn."
* On symbolism of the election of Bill de
Blasio, a man in an interracial marriage with multiracial children, as
mayor of New York City, I was quoted in the Wall Street Journal on 11/6/2013, the day after de
Blasio's election, see also this 11/16/2013 AP story about interraciality and de Blasio.
Coverage of my Research on the Predictors of Divorce:
* Eric Dolan for PsyPost wrote a great Feb 25,
2024 summary of my (with co-author Katharina
Roesler)’s “landmark study” in the Journal of Marriage and Family of the history and
change over time of predictors of divorce and marital dissolution in the
US, using National Survey of Family Growth data covering more than 60 years
of marriage histories (non-paywall version here).
Coverage of the How Couples Meet
and Stay Together studies:
* USA Today, a nice story by Sharon Jayson on friends, the Web, and How Couples
Meet. Feb 11, 2010.
* Stanford Report, a feature story on How Couples Meet, with video. Feb
11, 2010.
* San Jose Mercury News, "Growing Number of Singles Find Their Valentines Online,"
Feb 14, 2010.
* CNN, "Mom's Post on 'Date My Single Kid' ", July 19,
2010.
* NPR, "Computers are Becoming Cupid's Best Weapon," story
by Jennifer Ludden August 16, 2010
* Reuters news wire, Aug 16, 2010
* Radio Nacional de Colombia, Aug 16, 2010
* The Economist Magazine ran a story,
"Love at First Byte" in their December 29, 2010 issue (hyperlink
currently unreliable).
* I was a guest on the hour-long radio show
City Visions, hosted by KALW in San Francisco on February 14, 2011
(Valentine's Day). Link currently unavailable.
* The Discovery Chanel ran a story, "Does Online Dating Work?" on Feb 11, 2011, and the
the story was picked up by ABC News the next day.
*The New York Times quoted me in a story
"Love, Lies, and What They Learned" on November 12,
2011.
*Stanford Alumni Magazine had a Valentine's Day (2012) Blog post about my research.
* On gays and online dating, at the Huffington Post.
* On the TV show "How I Met your
Mother," in the Wall Street Journal in 2014.
* On how couples deal with technology in The New York Times, Dec 3, 2014.
* Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg's new book
Modern Romance, relies substantially on the How Couples Meet data, and
replicates key figures from the Rosenfeld and Thomas 2012 ASR paper. The
Ansari time
magazine article from June, 2015 replicates the "how couples met
over time" figures and the Ansari and Klinenberg NY Times Sunday Review piece from June 13, 2015
features some of the findings from the same figures.
* In response to the interesting debate
between Vanity Fair and Tinder about the effect of the Internet on sex and
relationships, The Washington Post on August 13, 2015 ran a review of what is known about the Internet and
relationships, featuring the Rosenfeld
and Thomas 2012 ASR paper.
* Washington Post blog on the changing way Americans meet their partners,
March 8, 2016. A Washington Post blog post from March 18, 2016, about the
strong association between relationship duration and couple stability. Another
Washington Post story, March 23, 2016, on the efficacy of online dating.
* On the surprising commitment level and
faster transitions to marriage for couples who met online, see this Sophia
Kercher New York Times article from April 19, 2017.
* On phone dating apps and their effect on
relationships, I was interviewed on NPR's Here
and Now show, May 15, 2017.
* The Economist had an August 18, 2018 on
"Meet Markets: How the Internet has changed dating"
* The Washington Post had a story by Jenna
Birch from September 13, 2018, about why it is so hard to turn a Tinder date into a relationship.
* A feature story in the December, 2018
issue of the Atlantic by Kate Julian described the downward trend in sex and dating, and featured some findings from the 2017 wave of the HCMST on how
few dates single heterosexuals go on.
* Around the time of Valentines Day 2019,
there were several stories about the paper "Disintermediating your
Friends," showing a rise in heterosexual couples meeting online. See
the story in Quartz, for example.
* The rise of meeting online in HCMST 2017
was covered in the Washington Post in June, 2019.
* Derek Thompson tweeted and wrote a story in the Atlantic July 21, 2019 about the rise of
Internet dating in the US.
* Emine Saner wrote an article in The Guardian, July 22, 2019, on the changing
way heterosexual couples in the US meet.
* There was a nice story in Stanford news, Aug 21, 2019, about our PNAS
story on how Internet dating is overtaking the role of friends.
* There was a nice story in the Boston Globe, Aug 21, 2019 by Martin
Funucane, about the displacement of friends by the Internet in how
heterosexual couples meet.
* A story in Time
Magazine, Oct 28, 2021, on dating during the pandemic quoted me about
how much harder it was to play to field (romantically speaking) during the
pandemic. People in stable relationships had an advantage.
* A story in Spain's El Pais newspaper (in Spanish),
Sept 26 2022, about the pros
and cons of Tinder.
* I was interviewed for the TED website about dating
in the era of climate change.
* I was interviewed by Callum Borchers for his March 3,
2022 Wall Street Journal article about dating
coworkers during the pandemic.
* I was interviewed by USA today for an article on dating
during the pandemic.
* In a December, 2023 article in Time Magazine
online, I was interviewed by Will Henshall and quoted as a the skeptic
about whether AI tools are going to make dating so much better and more
efficient.
* Just in time for Valentine’s Day, a story in
the New York Times about paid
matchmaking quoted me on February 13, 2024.
* Leah Worthington published a story in National Geographic about dating apps on March 20, 2024
about dating apps that quoted me.
* Have dating app companies fallen on hard times? A
story in The
Atlantic by Lora Kelly from April 10, 2024 tries to answer the
question.
Attention
for the study of children raised by same-sex couples:
* Stanford Report, a feature story on children raised by same-sex couples,
with video, Aug 30, 2010
* UPI coverage of the same story
* My study of children raised by same-sex couples was
cited in The Times of London, Oct 23, 2010, but the article is behind a
pay-only firewall.
*The evidence shows that same-sex couples do
a perfectly fine job raising children. These couples need all the rights
and recognition and obligations of marriage. See my June
19, 2008 Op-Ed in the Sacramento Bee. See also my paper on
"Nontraditional Families and Childhood Progress Through School."
* Work on the outcomes of children raised by same-sex
couples has come under scrutiny since several of the Supreme Court justices
raised (ill-informed) questions about this research during the oral
arguments over the Proposition 8 and DOMA cases. See this interesting story in the LA Times from April 6, 2013.
* I was cited in a Nov 26, 2013 New York Times story about gay parents,
their children, and the changing American family.
* Using my research showing good outcomes for children
raised by same-sex couples, I testified as an expert witness in the DeBoer
v. Snyder same-sex marriage federal trial in Michigan in February, 2014.
See the New York Times coverage here, see Huffington Post story about the judge's
decision here, and see the judge's decision here.
* I was cited broadly in a feb 19, 2015 article by Emma Green in the Atlantic about why a new set of antigay family
research is 'pseudoscience.'
*On the subject of changing American
public opinion towards gay rights and gay marriage , which is also
the subject of my 2021 book The Rainbow After the Storm
* I was quoted in a March 16, 2013 story in the Allentown Morning Call. I was quoted at
length in an April, 2019 NPR podcast Hidden Brain about the radically changing history of
American attitudes toward gay rights.
* I was interviewed on Korean
Airarang TV on March 9, 2023 about a Korean appeals court decision
giving a gay couple spousal health insurance privileges.
On the subject of the breakup rate of
same-sex and heterosexual couples
* I (along with my 2014 JMF paper) were
quoted in the Wall Street Journal on December 16, 2014.
* And see The Washington Post Wonkblog on March 18, 2016.
On the subject of the gender of breakup
* My work on the gender of breakup, which was
presented at the 2015 ASA meetings, received a lot of press coverage,
including the New York Times blog Women in the World, The Washington Post, the Huffington Post, with coverage also in Time magazine, Medical Daily, the Daily Mail, and Live Science.
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