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CCF's Kristi Willams on WHYY Philadelphia
Hear what she had to say about romantic love and the modern American marriage on WHYY Philadelphia’s “Solitude and the creative life”.
CCF's Stephanie Coontz for The New York Times: What Can Different-Sex Couples Learn From Same-Sex Couples?
Find out in her NYT op-ed, “How to Make Your Marriage Gayer,” featuring research by CCF experts Joanna Pepin, Dan Carlson, Virginia Rutter, Amanda Miller, Deb Umberson, Kristi Williams, Sharon Sassler and more!
CCF Announces USA Today as 2020 Award Recipient for Outstanding Media Coverage of Family Issues
Congratulations to Alia E. Dastagir, Charisse Jones, Courtney Crowder, and Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy for their piece, “America’s parents want paid family leave and affordable child care. Why can’t they get it?.”
Celebrate National Spouses Day with a New CCF Fact Sheet
See what CCF experts Daniel Carlson and Stephanie Coontz have to say about marriage in contemporary America in “National Spouses Day Is This Sunday…. Feeling Any Pressure?”
Announcing CCF's 20th Biennial Conference!
Join us in Austin, TX on February 7, 2020 for “Raising Children in the 21st Century”
New CCF Fact Sheet Takes a Look at Child Poverty in the United States
Read more about the historical origins of Halloween and the current state of child poverty in the U.S. in CCF’s “10 Scary Facts About Child Poverty”
New Symposium From CCF!
Read what our experts have to say about how colleges can deal with the complicated realities of sex on campus in CCF’s new online symposium “Defining Consent”
CCF's Stephanie Coontz on Paying Stay-at-Home Parents in The New York Times
Read her thoughts in NYT’s “Stay-at-Home Parents Work Hard. Should They Be Paid?”
New Online Symposium From CCF!
New CCF Brief Report Shows Hiring-Related Gender Discrimination is Hardly a Thing of the Past
Author Jill Yavorsky finds that men and women applying for jobs largely associated with the opposite-sex often face discrimination

CCF's Kristi Willams on WHYY Philadelphia
Hear what she had to say about romantic love and the modern American marriage on WHYY Philadelphia’s “Solitude and the creative life”.
CCF's Stephanie Coontz for The New York Times: What Can Different-Sex Couples Learn From Same-Sex Couples?
Find out in her NYT op-ed, “How to Make Your Marriage Gayer,” featuring research by CCF experts Joanna Pepin, Dan Carlson, Virginia Rutter, Amanda Miller, Deb Umberson, Kristi Williams, Sharon Sassler and more!
CCF Announces USA Today as 2020 Award Recipient for Outstanding Media Coverage of Family Issues
Congratulations to Alia E. Dastagir, Charisse Jones, Courtney Crowder, and Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy for their piece, “America’s parents want paid family leave and affordable child care. Why can’t they get it?.”
Celebrate National Spouses Day with a New CCF Fact Sheet
See what CCF experts Daniel Carlson and Stephanie Coontz have to say about marriage in contemporary America in “National Spouses Day Is This Sunday…. Feeling Any Pressure?”
Announcing CCF's 20th Biennial Conference!
Join us in Austin, TX on February 7, 2020 for “Raising Children in the 21st Century”
New CCF Fact Sheet Takes a Look at Child Poverty in the United States
Read more about the historical origins of Halloween and the current state of child poverty in the U.S. in CCF’s “10 Scary Facts About Child Poverty”
New Symposium From CCF!
Read what our experts have to say about how colleges can deal with the complicated realities of sex on campus in CCF’s new online symposium “Defining Consent”
CCF's Stephanie Coontz on Paying Stay-at-Home Parents in The New York Times
Read her thoughts in NYT’s “Stay-at-Home Parents Work Hard. Should They Be Paid?”
New Online Symposium From CCF!
New CCF Brief Report Shows Hiring-Related Gender Discrimination is Hardly a Thing of the Past
Author Jill Yavorsky finds that men and women applying for jobs largely associated with the opposite-sex often face discrimination

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Karen Guzzo

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Center for Family & Demographic Research, Bowling Green State University

Dr. Guzzo is a sociologist and demographer. Her work focuses on less traditional but fairly common family and childbearing behaviors, paying attention to trends over time and differences across race, class, and gender. Dr. Guzzo has studied cohabitation extensively, with emphasis in recent years on cohabiting families with children (both biological and stepchildren). She also […]

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CCF's Kristi Willams on WHYY Philadelphia

CCF's Stephanie Coontz for The New York Times: What Can Different-Sex Couples Learn From Same-Sex Couples?

CCF Announces USA Today as 2020 Award Recipient for Outstanding Media Coverage of Family Issues

Celebrate National Spouses Day with a New CCF Fact Sheet

Announcing CCF's 20th Biennial Conference!

New CCF Fact Sheet Takes a Look at Child Poverty in the United States

New Symposium From CCF!

CCF's Stephanie Coontz on Paying Stay-at-Home Parents in The New York Times

New Online Symposium From CCF!

New CCF Brief Report Shows Hiring-Related Gender Discrimination is Hardly a Thing of the Past

Featured CCF Member

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CCF’s Media Roundup – February 3, 2020

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Community College Students Want to Use More Effective Birth Control Methods But Can’t Always Get What They Want

CCF’s Stephanie Coontz for The New York Times: What Can Different-Sex Couples Learn From Same-Sex Couples?

KEYNOTE ESSAY: No Easy Answers: Can Colleges Define Consent and Reduce Unwanted Sex? || Stephanie Coontz & Paula England

CCF’s Stephanie Coontz on Paying Stay-at-Home Parents in The New York Times

CCF’s Stephanie Coontz on Paying Stay-at-Home Parents in The New York Times

Hiring-related Discrimination: Sexist Beliefs and Expectations Hurt both Women’s and Men’s Career Options

Three Q: Per Coontz, Equality Is an agenda for all working people, not just feminists.

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

The Impact of the Zika Epidemic on Women’s Reproductive Intentions and Behaviors in Brazil

What are the Effects of Mothers’ and Fathers’ Depression and Thoughts of Death on Their Children’s Level of Parental Connectedness?

10 Scary Facts About Child Poverty

CCF’s Stephanie Coontz on Paying Stay-at-Home Parents in The New York Times

New from CCF: Even Gender Inequality is Unequal

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

CCF’s Kristi Williams on WHYY Philadelphia

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

CCF’s Kuperberg and Walker Publish New Research on College Hookups