Nola du Toit is completing her PhD in Sociology at Bowling Green State University. Her interests are demographic change, unmarried fertility, the family, and child wellbeing. Most specifically, she focusses on critiquing normative understandings of family. There is no traditional, one-size-fits-all family model and her research tries to illustrate differences in measurement and functions relative to child wellbeing in all types of family. She currently works at NORC at the University of Chicago where she pursues her research on the family using data collected by organization. 

Published Manuscript: Manning, Wendy., Deanna Trella, Heidi Lyons, and Nola C. du Toit. 2010. "Marriageable Women: A Focus on Participants in a Community Healthy Marriage Program." Family Relations, (59)1: 87-102. 
Manuscript Under Review: du Toit, Nola C., and Catherine Haggerty. 2012. "Instability Overlooked: Evidence for the Importance of Household Roster Matching Over." Summited to special issue on measurement, Public Opinion Quarterly. 
Manuscripts in Progress: (1) du Toit, Nola C., and Catherine Haggerty.. 2012. "Household Instability: Considering all Household Composition Trajectories for the Wellbeing of Children"; (2) du Toit, Nola, Kate Bachtell, and Catherine Haggerty. 2012. "Coming and Going: The Effect of Household Composition on the Economic Well-being of Families with Children."