Nicholas H. Wolfinger is Professor of Family and Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, both in sociology. He is the author of Understanding the Divorce Cycle: The Children of Divorce in Their Own Marriages (2005), Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda (edited with Lori Kowaleski-Jones, 2005), Do Babies Matter Gender and Family in the Ivory Tower (with Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden, 2013), Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Children, and Marriage among African Americans and Latinos (with W. Bradford Wilcox, 2016), and Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980 (with Matthew McKeever, 2024). Wolfinger is the author of about 40 articles or chapters, as well as short pieces in The Atlantic, National Review, Huffington Post, and other outlets. Between 2016 and 2021, his university investigated him three times.
