Bruce A. Chadwick is an emeritus professor of sociology at Brigham Young University (BYU). Chadwick has a Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. Chadwick was for a time director of BYU's Center for Studies of the Family. From 1992 to 1996 he did an exhaustive study along with

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involving 4000 participants of religious affiliation and other actions of Latter-day Saint teens. Chadwick edited the ''Statistical Handbook on the American Family'' with

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and the ''Statistical Handbook of Racial Groups in the United States'' with Heaton and Cardell K. Jacobsen both published by

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. He also co-authored many works on

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as part of the Middletown Studies with

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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''. In the 1970s Chadwick coauthored multiple articles on the Native American experience in the city of Seattle. Chadwick's "Hanging Out, Hooking Up and Celestial Marriage", a devotional address given at Brigham Young University, was one of the sources cited in

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's similarly themed CES fireside address, "Dating versus Hanging Out".Dallin H. Oaks
"Dating versus Hanging Out"
'' Ensign'', June 2006, pp. 10–16.

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Religious Studies Center bio for Chadwick
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