Council on Contemporary Families

What does Ivanka Trump's defense of paid family leave really mean?
Stephanie Coontz says that Ivanka Trump gives us a benchmark for entitlement programs
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CCF Chair’s new book, out now, shows us how to interpret the contents of our closets.
Myths and Facts for Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
This fact sheet was compiled for the Council on Contemporary Families by scholars at diversitydatakids.org
CCF Gender and Millennials Online Symposium
CCF’s Gender and Millennials Online Symposium presents new research on how Millennial men and women are changing—and how they are not changing.

What does Ivanka Trump's defense of paid family leave really mean?
Stephanie Coontz says that Ivanka Trump gives us a benchmark for entitlement programs
You've heard what your family says about your stuff, but what does your stuff say about your family....
CCF Chair’s new book, out now, shows us how to interpret the contents of our closets.
Myths and Facts for Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
This fact sheet was compiled for the Council on Contemporary Families by scholars at diversitydatakids.org
CCF Gender and Millennials Online Symposium
CCF’s Gender and Millennials Online Symposium presents new research on how Millennial men and women are changing—and how they are not changing.

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Michele Pridmore-Brown, PhD.

Scholar with the Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, UC Berkeley/ Los Angeles Review of Books

Michele Pridmore-Brown is a Research Scholar at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society at UC Berkeley. She is also the Senior Editor of the Science and Technology Section of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her own work usually falls in the Gender and Science category. She has written about constructions of “the […]

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What does Ivanka Trump's defense of paid family leave really mean?

You've heard what your family says about your stuff, but what does your stuff say about your family....

Myths and Facts for Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month

CCF Gender and Millennials Online Symposium

Featured CCF Member

Recent Postings

CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, August 10, 2017

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

Joanna Pepin and David Cotter: Trending Towards Traditionalism? Changes in Youths’ Gender Ideology

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

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.

Kristi Williams Updates Ann Fisher on the Health Benefits – and Risks – of Marriage

Men and Depression, Joshua Coleman Comments for the WSJ

Kristi Williams Comments on CDC Report for Huffington Post

Stephanie Coontz Weighs In On Ivanka Trump’s Defense of Paid Family Leave

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

Is TANF Working for Struggling Millennial Parents?

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 ADVISORY: Debra Umberson reports on African-Americans’ much greater exposure to the early death of close family members

Kristal Brent Zook, One of CCF’s Newest Board Members, Has a New Article in the Washington Post

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

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