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Kevin Shafer

Associate Professor of Sociology, Brigham Young University & McMaster University

Website: Kevinshafer.org Twitter: @shafer_soc Kevin Shafer, PhD is an associate professor of sociology at Brigham Young University and adjunct associate professor of Health, Aging, & Society at McMaster University. His research focuses on the facilitators of and barriers to father involvement, with a particular emphasis on masculinity and health. He conducts this work in both […]

Topics of Expertise: Gender & Sexuality / Health & Illness / Health Care / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Public Policy

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Recent Postings

The Difference Debt Makes: College Students and Grads on How Student Debt Affects Their Life Choices – And What They Would Do Differently If It Were Forgiven

Why Families Need More Financial Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic

CCF Board Member Barbara Risman On How To Help Working Parents While Also Equalizing Children’s Educational Access

Media Messages to Young Girls: Does “Sexy Girl” Trump “Girl Power”?

Before and during COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality

CCF’S Stephanie Coontz Interviewed by Legacy Washington

Why Families Need More Financial Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Before and during COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality

CCF’S Stephanie Coontz Interviewed by Legacy Washington

Why Families Need More Financial Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic

CCF’s Joshua Coleman on Helping Your Family Take COVID-19 Seriously

Transgender Youth Allowed to Use Their Chosen Name Have Fewer Mental Health Problems

The Difference Debt Makes: College Students and Grads on How Student Debt Affects Their Life Choices – And What They Would Do Differently If It Were Forgiven

Why Families Need More Financial Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic

“The Tool We Have”: Why Child Protective Services Investigates So Many Families and How Even Good Intentions Backfire

Same-Sex Couples Devote More Attention to End-of-Life Plans than Heterosexual Couples

Black Deaths Matter: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Racial Disparities in Relationship Loss and Health

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

Household Instability and Complexity among Undocumented Immigrants

Parenting Patterns, Racial Discrimination, and African American Adolescents’ Psychological and Academic Outcomes

Black Deaths Matter: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Racial Disparities in Relationship Loss and Health

New MAST Center Brief on Trends in Relationship Formation and Stability

CCF’s Kristi Williams on WHYY Philadelphia

National Spouses Day Is This Sunday…. Feeling Any Pressure?