Read her op-ed in the Chicago Tribune: “A new Works Progress Administration could create ‘learning pods’ for all schoolchildren.“
Topics of Expertise: Childcare (Providers & Systems) / Economic Inequality / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood
“Legacy Washington recently recorded an interview with author/historian Stephanie Coontz. Watch Legacy Washington historian Bob Young interview Coontz, an expert on family and marriage whose writing influenced the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Coontz has recently appeared in The New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine, and gave this year’s commencement speech […]
Topics of Expertise: Children / Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Feminism & Families / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family
Parents often rely on their networks for child care, but how has that changed since COVID-19? CCF’s Executive Director Jennifer Glass has some thoughts in The Christian Science Monitor’s “‘I can’t keep this up much longer’: Parents struggle with pandemic strain.” Link: https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/2020/0709/I-can-t-keep-this-up-much-longer-Parents-struggle-with-pandemic-strain
Topics of Expertise: Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family
CCF experts Dan Carlson, Richard Petts, and Joanna Pepin discuss the findings of their latest brief report on gendered division of labor during the covid-19 pandemic with Deseret News’ Lois M. Collins. Read the article, “More men are doing housework during the pandemic, research finds,” here. UPDATE: read more coverage of CCF’s latest brief report in […]
Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Trauma and Disaster / Work & Family
Read her thoughts on the challenges mothers are facing in “Coronavirus Is Killing the Working Mother”
Topics of Expertise: Children / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood
The Marriage Strengthening Research & Dissemination Center (MAST) recently released a new research brief, “Trends in Relationship Formation and Stability in the United States: Dating, Cohabitation, Marriage, and Divorce.” Co-authored by CCF expert Dr. Karen Benjamin Guzzo, the brief is the first in a series aiming to provide an overview of the current state of […]
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Marriage & Divorce / Singles & Dating
Are you having trouble convincing your family to take COVID-19 seriously? CCF senior fellow Joshua Coleman has some advice! Read his thoughts in The Atlantic’s “What Do You Tell Someone Who Still Won’t Stay Home?” Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/03/convince-family-take-coronavirus-seriously/608356/
Topics of Expertise: Health & Illness / Trauma and Disaster
Listen here to see what CCF President of the Board Kristi Williams had to say about romantic love and the modern American marriage on WHYY Philadelphia’s “Solitude and the creative life”. Link: https://whyy.org/episodes/solitude-and-the-creative-life/
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Singles & Dating
Five years after marriage equality, CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz asks: What can different-sex couples learn from same-sex couples? Featuring research by CCF experts Joanna Pepin, Dan Carlson, Virginia Rutter, Amanda Miller, Deb Umberson, Kristi Williams, Sharon Sassler and many more, Coontz highlights the role of gender expectations in shaping marital dynamics […]
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / LGBTQ Partnering & Families / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood
In a recent article for the New York Times, CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz discusses the potential implications of paying stay-at-home parents, a role most often undertaken by women. Coontz notes, “without strong incentives for dads to take on some of those duties, this would simultaneously cement women’s second-class place in the […]
Topics of Expertise: Childcare (Providers & Systems) / Gender & Sexuality / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
A new profile from The Seattle Times takes a look at the life and career of CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz. From her involvement in the Seattle anti-war movement to her role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, see why author Bob Young refers to Coontz as “the […]
In her Op-Ed for NBC News, CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz writes about the origins of gendered wedding traditions and possible implications for marital satisfaction. Coontz writes, “couples looking for happiness in the years after their wedding day might consider updating old ceremonies, or crafting new ones, that reinforce their commitment to […]
Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life
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. This researched was published last year in Demography and finds that married and cohabiting mothers do more housework than single moms. “Being in a partnership appears to […]
JSTOR looks beyond the hype to examine what the “sex recession” is and whether we should be concerned about it. Several CCF experts weighed in on why the fear of a “sex recession” is misdirected. For example, Daniel Carlson explains how the amount of sex is not strongly linked to how satisfied you are with […]
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life
In a new opinion piece for CNN, CCF Expert Philip Cohen reflects on the divorce of Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos and sheds light on the burden divorce places on regular people. Cohen says: “We don’t need to worry about the Bezoses. But we should worry about two things: First, no one should be able to […]
