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2020 CCF Conference Program

“Raising Children in the 21st Century”

February 7, 2020

AT&T Hotel & Conference Center
1900 University Ave, Austin, TX 78705

View program pdf here

 

Morning Keynote Address: “Gender Development in the 21st Century: Parents, Schools, Technology, and Culture”
9:00 am – 10:15 am  

Speaker: Christia Spears Brown, Professor, Department of Developmental Psychology, and Director of the Center for Equality and Social Justice, University of Kentucky

Discussant: Barbara Risman, University of Illinois at Chicago & Council on Contemporary Families

 

Research to Practice: Discussion Roundtable
10:20 am – 11:20 am

Cynthia Osborne, University of Texas at Austin: “Building a Policy Roadmap to Strengthen the Prenatal-to-Three System of Care”

Julie Maslowsky, University of Texas at Austin: “Family Planning Among Teenage Mothers”

David Yeager, University of Texas at Austin: “The New Era of Mindset Research”

Delida Sanchez, University of Texas at Austin: “Utilizing Youth Based Participatory Action Research Methodology in the Schools to Address Health Disparities among Latinx Youth”

 

Media Workshop
11:25 am – 12:15 pm

Rachel White, The University of Texas at Austin: “Talk Nerdy to Me: Translating Research for the Public”

Stephanie Coontz, Evergreen State & Council on Contemporary Families: “Taking Your Work Public: What’s Worthy is Not Always Newsworthy”

 

Lunch and Flash Session
12:20 pm – 1:20 pm  

Heidi Williams, Virginia Tech: “Not by Bread Alone: Mothers’ Strategic Pursuit of Education to Meet Basic Needs”

Melissa D. Day, University of New Hampshire: “Listening to Stepmothers: Rethinking the Measurement of Stepfamily Households and the Residential Status of Children”

Anne Blumenthal and Karin A. Martin, University of Michigan: “A Consequence of Supervision? The Gender Gap in Child Injury Deaths in the United States”

Yesenia Vargas, University of Illinois at Chicago: “Parenting in the Experience Economy: How Middle-Class Families Finesse a Changing Consumer Culture”

Yixia Cai, University of Wisconsin–Madison: “The Effects of Parental Employment Instability on American Children, 1996-2013”

Jennifer A. Pace, Midwestern State University: “’These Boys’ Lives Are Too Easy’: Reconciling Masculinity and Privilege among Parents of Youth Football Players”

 

Afternoon Keynote Address: “Immigrant Families, Law, and Enforcement: Central American Parents and Children Living in Legal Limbo”
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm

Speaker: Dr. Cecilia Menjívar, Professor and Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant: Luis Zayas, University of Texas at Austin, “Living in Legal Limbo”: Family Health After Detention and Separation

 

Panel: Raising Children Under Threat
2:50 pm – 3:55 pm

Kathleen Roche, George Washington University: “The Perils Facing U.S. Latinx Adolescents in an Increasingly Restrictive Immigrant Environment”

Lori Holleran Steiker, University of Texas at Austin: “Preventing and Responding to Youth Substance Misuse and Substance Use Disorders”

Germine Awad, University of South Carolina: “Prejudice Towards Arab/MENA Americans”

 

Panel: Launching Children into and Through Adulthood
4:00 pm – 5:05 pm

Karen Fingerman, University of Texas at Austin: “How the New Young Adulthood Shapes Parenting in Midlife”

Stephen Russell, University of Texas at Austin: “What LGBTQ Youth and Families Teach us About 21st Century Parenting”

Ellen Wartella, Northwestern University: “Social Media and Adolescence”

 

Networking Reception and Media Awards
5:15 pm – 6:15 pm

 

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