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Members In The News

Pepper Schwartz Weighs in on CCN’s Generation Debate

Posted on January 22, 2016 in CCF News, Members In The News
Experts: Pepper Schwartz

CCF Board Member Pepper Schwartz speaks up on behalf of those born at the end of the greatest generation for CCN’s Which generation has it worse?

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Kristi Williams Comments on CDC Report for Huffington Post

Posted on January 6, 2016 in CCF News, Members In The News
Experts: Kristi Williams

CCF Board Secretary, Kristi Williams, provides the Huffington Post with her insight on a CDC study of the occurence of sleep deprivation among single parents in: Almost Half Of Single Moms Struggle With This Health Problem And we’re finally doing them the courtesy of studying it.  

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Topics of Expertise: Health & Illness / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood
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CCF Congratulates Kristi Williams: Newly Named Editor of JMF

Posted on December 9, 2015 in CCF News, Members In The News
Experts: Kristi Williams

CCF Boardmember and Secretary, Kristi Williams, will be the next editor of the  Journal of Marriage and Family. Kristi, a sociologist currently with Ohio State, specializes on the influence of family on physical and mental health. Dr. William Avison, who nominated Kristi to the JMF, describes her as “extremely talented” and  “one of the stars of research […]

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Host of CCF members dissect divorce in Hopes&Fears

Posted on November 13, 2015 in CCF News, Members In The News
Experts: Arielle Kuperberg / Constance Ahrons / Jennifer Glass / Stephanie Coontz

CCF Director Jennifer Glass and Board member Stephanie Coontz join CCF members Ariel Kuperberg and Constance Ahrons in commenting on divorce for Hopes & Fears’s Is Divorce Really That Bad? .

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Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce
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CCF’s Linda Young comments on forgiveness in Essence

Posted on November 9, 2015 in CCF News, Members In The News
Experts: Linda Young

Dr. Young discusses the power of forgiveness in transitioning through grief for the families of the Charleston church shooting.

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Topics of Expertise: Trauma and Disaster
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Pepper Schwartz comments in USA Today on Kelly Musick’s new report

Posted on October 29, 2015 in CCF News, Members In The News
Experts: Kelly Musick / Pepper Schwartz

Check out CCF boardmember Pepper Schwartz’s comments on member Kelly Musick’s report on pre-marital parenting.

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Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Transition - Couples to Parenting
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Stephanie Coontz cited in SCOTUS decision

Posted on October 29, 2015 in CCF News, Members In The News
Experts: Stephanie Coontz

CCF Research Director Stephanie Coontz is cited in the SCOTUS decision legalizing same-sex marriage, June 26, 2015. Check out this related story in the Seattle Times.    

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Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Marriage & Divorce
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Check out CCF’s Stephanie Coontz’s article in The Guardian and CNN

Posted on April 3, 2015 in CCF News, Members In The News
Experts: Stephanie Coontz

The Council on Contemporary Families very own Stephanie Coontz has a column in The Guardian (UK)–the article cites CCF’s April 2nd briefing report on improving men’s uptake of parental leave. Check out her article published today on CNN.com.

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Same-Sex Couples May Have More Egalitarian Relationships

Posted on January 2, 2015 in Members In The News
Experts: Robert-Jay Green

Same-Sex Couples May Have More Egalitarian Relationships http://www.wbur.org/npr/373835114/same-sex-couples-may-have-more-egalitarian-relationships National Public Radio (NPR) December 29, 2014  

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Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / LGBTQ Partnering & Families
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Family structure, race, education and economic inequality

Posted on September 11, 2013 in Members In The News


CFF’s board members, Stephanie Coontz and Phil Cohen discuss the relationship between family structure, race, education and economic inequality in a Washington post article.

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Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Work & Family
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Children in families with same-sex parents

Posted on August 28, 2013 in Members In The News
Experts: Dawn O. Braithwaite

CCF’s Dawn Braithwaite was on KFOR’s Lincoln Live radio show discussing children in families with same-sex parents. Listen to the interview on their website (after clicking, scroll down and select “Children in Gay Families”).  

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Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / LGBTQ Partnering & Families
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Pepper Schwartz on CNN: Miley Cyrus as a teaching moment

Posted on August 27, 2013 in Members In The News


Pepper Schwartz, Senior CCF Fellow, shares ways to use Miley Cyrus’s performance on the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards as a teaching moment for parents to talk to teens about sexuality, in a CNN Op-Ed piece.  

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Joshua Coleman on NPR: parenting and empty nests

Posted on August 26, 2013 in Members In The News
Experts: Joshua Coleman

Joshua Coleman, CCF Co-Chair, was on NPR’s forum and on North Carolina’s KQED Radio discussing parenting and empty nests. It’s late August and flocks of future college freshmen have begun their migration to campuses around the country. For parents left at home, it can also be a stressful and sad time.

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Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare
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