Bruce A. Chadwick
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Bruce A. Chadwick is an emeritus professor of sociology at Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

 (BYU).

Chadwick has a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...

.

Chadwick was for a time director of BYU's Center for Studies of the Family. From 1992-1996 he did an exhaustive study along with Brent L. Top
Brent L. Top
Brent LaMar Top is a professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University .-Biographical background:Top is a native of Idaho Falls. He served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Denmark. He holds a bachelors degree in history, a masters degree in...

 involving 4000 participants of religious affiliation and other actions of LDS Teens.

Chadwick edited the Statistical Handbook on the American Family with Tim B. Heaton and the Statistical Handbook of Racial Groups in the United States with Heaton and Cardell K. Jacobsen both published by Oryx Press. He also co-authored many works on Muncie, Indiana
Muncie, Indiana
Muncie is a city in Center Township, Delaware County in east central Indiana, best known as the home of Ball State University and the birthplace of the Ball Corporation. It is the principal city of the Muncie, Indiana, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 118,769...

 as part of the Middletown Studies with Howard M. Bahr
Howard M. Bahr
Howard M. Bahr has been a professor of Sociology at Brigham Young University since 1973 and was director of field research for the Middletown IV study in 1999....

 and Theodore Caplow such as All Faithful People: Continuity and Change in the Middletown Region and Recent Social Trends in the United States: 1960-1990.

Chadwick's "Hanging Out, Hooking Up and Celestial Marriage", a Devotional Address given at BYU was one the sources cited in Dallin H. Oaks
Dallin H. Oaks
Dallin Harris Oaks is an American attorney, jurist, author, professor, public speaker, and religious leader. Since 1984, he has been a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...

 similarly themed CES
Church Educational System
The Church Educational System of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consists of several institutions that provide religious and secular education for both Latter-day Saint and non-Latter-day Saint elementary, secondary, and post-secondary students and adult learners...

 Fireside Address Dating Vesus Hanging Out"

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