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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 Stephanie Coontz Writes About the History of Wedding Traditions for NBC News:
Some for better and some definitely for worse.
Research by CCF Member Joanna Pepin Featured in PRB Report for Mother's Day
The Population Reference Bureau released a report on time use patterns of married, cohabiting and single mothers based on research by CCF Member Joanna Pepin. Pepin finds that married and cohabiting mothers do more housework than single moms.

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 Stephanie Coontz Writes About the History of Wedding Traditions for NBC News:
Some for better and some definitely for worse.
Research by CCF Member Joanna Pepin Featured in PRB Report for Mother's Day
The Population Reference Bureau released a report on time use patterns of married, cohabiting and single mothers based on research by CCF Member Joanna Pepin. Pepin finds that married and cohabiting mothers do more housework than single moms.

Featured CCF Member

Lawrence Ganong

PhD Professor and Co-Chair of the College of Environmental Science, University of Missouri

Dr. Ganong’s research interests include remarriage and stepfamilies, family obligations, family structure stereotyping and families and health. He is interested in families and the health of family members. His research program has focused on how marital and family transitions are related to family care giving processes across the life course. This program has included studies […]

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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

CCF's Stephanie Coontz Writes About the History of Wedding Traditions for NBC News:

Research by CCF Member Joanna Pepin Featured in PRB Report for Mother's Day

Featured CCF Member

Recent Postings

CCF’s Media Roundup – December 20, 2019

CCF’s Media Roundup – December 6, 2019

CCF’s Media Roundup – November 15, 2019

10 Scary Facts About Child Poverty

New from CCF: Even Gender Inequality is Unequal

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

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

New from CCF: Even Gender Inequality is Unequal

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 Kuperberg and Walker Publish New Research on College Hookups

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