1. See Marie Cornwall, Tim B. Heaton, and Lawrence A. Young, eds., Contemporary Mormonism: Social Science Perspectives (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994).

2. See also Don A. Dillman, Mail and Telephone Surveys: The Total Design Method (New York: Wiley, 1978).

3. American Institute of Public Opinion, Religion in America, 1992–93, Gallup Opinion Index Series (Princeton, N.J.: American Institute of Public Opinion, 1993), 21.

4. Tim B. Heaton, Kristen L. Goodman, and Thomas B. Holman, “In Search of a Peculiar People: Are Mormon Families Really Different?” in Contemporary Mormonism, ed. Cornwall, Heaton, and Young, 92–93; Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney, American Mainline Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1987), 97–98.

5. Roof and McKinney, American Mainline Religion, 81–99.

6. Roof and McKinney, American Mainline Religion, 84.

7. Rose L. Coser, “Reflections on Feminist Theory,” in Feminism and Sociological Theory, ed. Ruth A. Wallace (Newbury Park, Calif: Sage, 1989), 201.

8. American Institute of Public Opinion. Gallup Opinion Index. Religion in America, 1992–93, 43, 55.

9. See also Vern L. Bengtson and Katherine R. Allen, “The Life Course Perspective Applied to Families over Time,” in Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods: A Contextual Approach, ed. Pauline Boss, William J. Doherty, Ralph LaRossa, Walter R. Schumm, and Suzanne K. Steinmetz (New York: Plenum, 1993), 469–99; see also Paul Mattessich and Reuben Hill, “Life Cycle and Family Development,” in Handbook of Marriage and the Family, ed. Marvin B. Sussman and Susan K. Steinmetz (New York: Plenum, 1987), 437–69.

10. Evelyn Duvall, Family Development (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1977), viii.

11. Duvall, Family Development, 229.

12. Stan L. Albrecht, “The Consequential Dimension of Mormon Religiosity,” BYU Studies 29, no. 2 (1989): 70; Stan L. Albrecht, Marie Cornwall, and Perry H. Cunningham, “Religious Leave-taking: Disengagement and Disaffiliation among Mormons,” in Falling from the Faith, ed. David Bromley (Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 1988), 66–67, 70.

13. Allen E. Bergin, I. Reed Payne, Paul H. Jenkins, and Marie Cornwall, “Religion and Mental Health: Mormons and Other Groups,” in Contemporary Mormonism, ed. Cornwall, Heaton, and Young, 149–50.

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