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    January 25, 2021

Featured CCF Member

Paul Florsheim

Professor, Community & Behavioral Health Promotion, School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Dr. Paul Florsheim’s research interests focus on: (1) public health issues relevant to high-risk adolescents, including the prevention of relationship problems and mental illness (intimate partner violence. substance abuse, psychosis, and behavioral disorders); (2) interpersonal developmental processes related to health and mental health across the lifespan. His current projects include: (1) the development of a […]

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Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Transition - Adolescents to Adulthood / Transition - Couples to Parenting
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CCF’s Biweekly Media Briefings

  • CCF Media Brief – July 30, 2020

    CCF Media Brief – July 30, 2020

    July 30, 2020
  • CCF Media Brief – JULY 16, 2020

    CCF Media Brief – JULY 16, 2020

    July 16, 2020
  • CCF Media Brief – July 2, 2020

    CCF Media Brief – July 2, 2020

    July 2, 2020

Economic Inequality

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

    January 21, 2021
  • CCF Board Member Barbara Risman On How To Help Working Parents While Also Equalizing Children’s Educational Access

    August 12, 2020
  • Long-term Risks to Children from Economic Toll of COVID-19

    July 19, 2020

Gender & Sexuality

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

    September 2, 2020
  • Before and during COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality

    August 3, 2020
  • CCF’S Stephanie Coontz Interviewed by Legacy Washington

    July 31, 2020

Work & Family

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

    January 21, 2021
  • Before and during COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality

    August 3, 2020
  • CCF’S Stephanie Coontz Interviewed by Legacy Washington

    July 31, 2020

Health & Illness

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

    January 21, 2021
  • CCF’s Joshua Coleman on Helping Your Family Take COVID-19 Seriously

    March 23, 2020
  • Transgender Youth Allowed to Use Their Chosen Name Have Fewer Mental Health Problems

    June 19, 2018

Public Policy

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

    January 21, 2021
  • “The Tool We Have”: Why Child Protective Services Investigates So Many Families and How Even Good Intentions Backfire

    August 11, 2020
  • Long-term Risks to Children from Economic Toll of COVID-19

    July 19, 2020

Aging

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

    June 19, 2018
  • Black Deaths Matter: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Racial Disparities in Relationship Loss and Health

    May 16, 2018
  • For a Limited Time Only: Josh Coleman is ‘On the Air’ with ‘Knowledge@Wharton’

    March 29, 2016

Race, Ethnicity & Culture

  • Household Instability and Complexity among Undocumented Immigrants

    February 7, 2019
  • Parenting Patterns, Racial Discrimination, and African American Adolescents’ Psychological and Academic Outcomes

    May 16, 2018
  • Black Deaths Matter: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Racial Disparities in Relationship Loss and Health

    May 16, 2018

Singles & Dating

  • New MAST Center Brief on Trends in Relationship Formation and Stability

    June 2, 2020
  • CCF’s Kristi Williams on WHYY Philadelphia

    February 25, 2020
  • National Spouses Day Is This Sunday…. Feeling Any Pressure?

    January 23, 2020

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