The Center for Marriage and Family exists to build and enhance healthy marriages and families. It is dedicated to the proactive promotion of healthy Christian marriages and families in a contemporary culture of divorce and family dissolution. It seeks to achieve this goal by researching marriage and family with the best available interdisciplinary tools, by publishing the results of its research, and by developing and disseminating pastoral strategies on behalf of marriage and family as prescribed by its research.

    The Center for Marriage and Family was formally established in 1994 as an interdisciplinary center at Creighton University, a Catholic, Jesuit, comprehensive university committed to excellence in its undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. As Catholic, Creighton is dedicated to the pursuit of truth in all its forms and is guided by the living tradition of the Catholic Church. As Jesuit, Creighton participates in the tradition of the Society of Jesus which provides an integrating vision of the world arising out of a knowledge and love of Jesus Christ. The Center for Marriage and Family stands firmly in this Catholic and Jesuit tradition.