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 […]

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 […]

According to The Deseret News, CCF experts played a big role in shaping what we learned about the family in 2018 (“Here are 10 things studies taught us about the family in 2018”). CCF Director of Public Education, Stephanie Coontz, wrote a piece for The New York Times that informed the (shrinking) role of marriage in the […]