David H. Demo is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His research focuses on divorce and family transitions, changes in family relationships accompanying divorce, and the consequences of family transitions for family members' well-being. He has published widely in professional journals and he has authored or co-authored numerous chapters in edited volumes. He has also authored or edited several books, including Handbook of family diversity (with Katherine R. Allen and Mark A. Fine); Parents and adolescents in changing families (with Anne Marie Ambert); and Family diversity and… well-being (with Alan C. Acock), which received the Choice Magazine Outstanding Book Award. He has served on the editorial boards of several journals, and in 2007, he began a term as Editor of Journal of Marriage and Family. He is a Fellow of the National Council on Family Relations.
I was born in Pryor, OK. My dad was a sharecropper and my mother owned three grocery stores in the Salina, OK area. I grew up in Oaks, OK and attended Oaks Mission High School. I was a farmer turned chemist in college. I always liked chemistry and got a degree in 1977 at NSU in Tahlequah, OK. I am a veteran of the Vietnam War. I have invented about a dozen products. I have three U.S. Patents.