Army Reserves. She is the compiler and editor of Sister Saints, a groundbreaking study of Mormon women published in 1978, and co-author of The Survival Guide to Sex and Dating and The Survival Guide to Parenting. In 1986 she directed a research project investigating home births in Utah and Idaho. Her dissertation was on “Family Structure and Dynamics in Early Utah Mormon Families, 1847-1885.” In 2003 she was given an Outstanding Alumnus Award from the Department of Psychology at Utah State University.