CCF Experts Kristi Williams and Kevin Shafer Featured in Deseret News: How Housing Instability Impacts Children

Posted on August 12, 2021 in CCF News, Members In The News

CCF Expert Kristi Williams and her recent fact sheet, Long-term Risks to Children from Economic Toll of COVID-19, were featured in Deseret News this week. Williams discusses how the biggest challenges for families during the pandemic impact children across the life course. Expert Kevin Shafer was also featured and provided insight into the long-term effects […]

Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Children / Economic Inequality / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Health & Illness / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Public Policy / TANF & Public Assistance / Transition - Adolescents to Adulthood / Trauma and Disaster

CCF’s Stephanie Coontz Presents The State of Women’s Rights

Posted on July 1, 2021 in Members In The News

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

Stephanie Coontz presented the State of Women’s Rights at Legacy Washington’s 2019 “Ahead of the Curve” event. Watch her talk here!

Topics of Expertise: Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life

CCF Expert Chloe Bird for Newsweek: Why Mothers Need Continuous Care Even After Children are Born

Posted on May 10, 2021 in Members In The News

Experts: Chloe E. Bird

Bird and co-authors Lois McCloskey and Ann Celi write, “Pregnancy care should be conceptualized not as a singular event or series of events, but as a key source of information for women’s health care prevention and treatment needs across the life course. Creating a bridge to support such health care could also help to address […]

Topics of Expertise: Fertility,Reproduction & Sexual Health / Gender & Sexuality / Health & Illness / Health Care / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Race, Ethnicity & Culture / Reproductive Health

CCF Experts Kuperberg and Mazelis’ Student Loan Debt Brief Report Featured on North Carolina Public Radio

Posted on April 16, 2021 in Members In The News

Experts: Arielle Kuperberg / Joan Maya Mazelis

Read more here: https://www.wunc.org/2021-04-12/what-would-you-do-without-student-debt-a-study-from-unc-greensboro-put-the-question-to-recent-graduates Also, check out this feature in Rutgers-Camden News Now: https://news.camden.rutgers.edu/2021/04/additional-student-loan-debt-cancellations-needed-says-sociologist/

Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Public Policy / Transition - Adolescents to Adulthood / Transition - Couples to Parenting

CCF’s Joshua Coleman on the Complicated Realities of Parental Estrangement

Posted on December 22, 2020 in CCF News, Members In The News

Experts: Joshua Coleman

Read his thoughts in his new essay for Aeon, “Modern culture blames parents for forces beyond their control“

Topics of Expertise: Children / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Family Counseling, Therapy & Parenting Intervention / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood

CCF Board Member Barbara Risman On How To Help Working Parents While Also Equalizing Children’s Educational Access

Posted on August 12, 2020 in CCF News, Members In The News

Experts: Barbara Risman

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

CCF’S Stephanie Coontz Interviewed by Legacy Washington

Posted on July 31, 2020 in Members In The News

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

“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

CCF’s Executive Director Jennifer Glass on the Struggle for Child Care in a Pandemic

Posted on July 10, 2020 in CCF News, Members In The News

Experts: Jennifer Glass

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 Featured in The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Deseret News

Posted on July 9, 2020 in CCF News, Members In The News

Experts: Daniel Carlson / Joanna Pepin / Richard Petts

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

CCF’s Stephanie Coontz featured in Rolling Stone

Posted on July 6, 2020 in Members In The News

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

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

New MAST Center Brief on Trends in Relationship Formation and Stability

Posted on June 2, 2020 in Members In The News

Experts: Karen Guzzo

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

CCF’s Joshua Coleman on Helping Your Family Take COVID-19 Seriously

Posted on March 23, 2020 in Members In The News

Experts: Joshua Coleman

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

CCF’s Kristi Williams on WHYY Philadelphia

Posted on February 25, 2020 in Members In The News

Experts: Kristi Williams

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

CCF’s Stephanie Coontz for The New York Times: What Can Different-Sex Couples Learn From Same-Sex Couples?

Posted on February 18, 2020 in CCF News, Members In The News

Experts: Daniel Carlson / Debra Umberson / Joanna Pepin / Kristi Williams / Sharon Sassler / Stephanie Coontz / Virginia Rutter

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

CCF’s Stephanie Coontz on Paying Stay-at-Home Parents in The New York Times

Posted on October 1, 2019 in Members In The News

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

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