Bruce A. Chadwick is a professor emeritus of sociology at Brigham Young University. He has a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a former director of BYU's Center for Studies of the Family. From 1992 to 1996 he conducted an exhaustive study along with Brent L. Top involving four thousand LDS teens and other participants of religious. 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 coauthored many works on Muncie, Indiana, as part of the Middletown Studies with Howard M. Bahr 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.