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Welfare Reform at 20. How’s that working for you?
Deconstructing the Way We Never Were
CCF Director of Research, Stephanie Coontz, applies her insight to the roots and manipulation of nostalgia in the current US presidential election.
It's not you... it's social policy.
CCF Graduate Fellow, Braxton Jones, reviews the media response to and policy implications of recent CCF findings on relationship dynamics.
Sharing is Sexy for Married Couples
Austin, TX 06.20.16 ~ : The research is in on gender and sexual satisfaction for today’s marrieds. A new CCF briefing report released today discovers that shared tasks rather than different ones deepen desire.
Does being a parent mean being less happy?
Austin, TX, 05/16/16; In a new CCF briefing report, researchers explore the happiness gap between parents and nonparents across 22 countries.

Welfare Reform at 20. How’s that working for you?
Deconstructing the Way We Never Were
CCF Director of Research, Stephanie Coontz, applies her insight to the roots and manipulation of nostalgia in the current US presidential election.
It's not you... it's social policy.
CCF Graduate Fellow, Braxton Jones, reviews the media response to and policy implications of recent CCF findings on relationship dynamics.
Sharing is Sexy for Married Couples
Austin, TX 06.20.16 ~ : The research is in on gender and sexual satisfaction for today’s marrieds. A new CCF briefing report released today discovers that shared tasks rather than different ones deepen desire.
Does being a parent mean being less happy?
Austin, TX, 05/16/16; In a new CCF briefing report, researchers explore the happiness gap between parents and nonparents across 22 countries.

Featured CCF Member

Velma McBride Murry

Professor of Human and Organizational Development, Society for Research on Adolescence, Society for Prevention Research, American Psy Association, Society for Research on Child Development

Velma McBride Murry, Ph.D., is the Lois Autrey Betts Chair in Education and Human Development in Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. Her work has focused on the significance of context in studies of African-American families and youth, particularly the impact of racism on family functioning. This research has elucidated the dynamics of this contextual stressor […]

Topics of Expertise: Race, Ethnicity & Culture

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Welfare Reform at 20. How’s that working for you?

Deconstructing the Way We Never Were

It's not you... it's social policy.

Sharing is Sexy for Married Couples

Does being a parent mean being less happy?

Featured CCF Member

Recent Postings

CCF’s Weekly Media Round-up by Steve Mintz, September 13th, 2016

Is TANF Working for Struggling Millennial Parents?

It’s Women’s History Month: Why is pay for caregiving work so low relative to other jobs with similarly low requirements for formal education?

Presidential Candidate Fact Checked by CCF Experts: Stephanie Coontz, Nancy Folbre, and Kristi Williams

The Date’s not Dead after all: New Findings on Hooking Up, Dating and Romantic Relationships in College

Josh Coleman and Barbara Risman weigh-in on the nation’s obsession with other peoples’ romances

CCF Symposium on Housework, Gender and Parenthood: Overview

Welfare Reform at 20. How’s that working for you?

Welfare Reform Attitudes and Single Mothers’ Employment after 20 Years

TANF didn’t fight poverty. Full employment did.

Men and Depression, Joshua Coleman Comments for the WSJ

Kristi Williams Comments on CDC Report for Huffington Post

CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Women’s Changing Social Status since the Civil Rights Act

The Frontlines of Welfare Reform: Why Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Programs Succeed or Fail

Is TANF Working for Struggling Millennial Parents?

Welfare Reform at 20. How’s that working for you?

For a Limited Time Only: Josh Coleman is ‘On the Air’ with ‘Knowledge@Wharton’

Gray Divorce: A Growing Risk Regardless of Class or Education

Aging Alone in America

CCF Press Advisory: CCF Announces Dan Carsen (WBHM & Southern Education Desk) and Ashley Cleek (Al Jazeera America) as 2016 Award Recipients for Outstanding Coverage of Family Issues

Dating Partners Don’t Always Prefer “Their Own Kind”: Some Multiracial Daters Get Bonus Points in the Dating Game

Moynihan’s Half Century: Have We Gone to Hell in a Hand Basket?

The Date’s not Dead after all: New Findings on Hooking Up, Dating and Romantic Relationships in College

Renowned expert on the meaning of marriage, Stephanie Coontz, opines for the WP

Dating Partners Don’t Always Prefer “Their Own Kind”: Some Multiracial Daters Get Bonus Points in the Dating Game