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Biweekly Briefings

CCF’s Media Roundup – December 6, 2019

Posted on December 6, 2019 in Biweekly Briefings


CCF MEDIA BRIEF – DECEMBER 6, 2019 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Single Moms vs. Single Dads: Examining the Double Standards of Single Parenthood The Best Parenting Advice Is to Go Live in Europe Family diversity, new normal Early Motherhood Has Always Been Miserable NEW ON THE CCF BLOG: Dads Count Too: Family-Friendly Policies Must […]

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CCF’s Media Roundup – November 15, 2019

Posted on November 15, 2019 in Biweekly Briefings


CCF MEDIA BRIEF – NOVEMBER 15, 2019 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: More And More Millennials And Gen Z Are Choosing Abstinence — Here’s Why Goldman Sachs now offers the most generous parental-leave policy on Wall Street. But the data says men won’t take it unless a ‘daddy quota’ becomes mandatory. NEW ON THE CCF […]

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CCF’s Media Roundup – November 1, 2019

Posted on November 1, 2019 in Biweekly Briefings


CCF MEDIA BRIEF – NOVEMBER 1, 2019 NEW FROM CCF: New CCF symposium! Defining Consent New CCF fact sheet! 10 Scary Facts About Child Poverty NEW ON THE BLOG: Mothering While Black Fears of Violence: Concerns of Middle-Class Latinx Parents CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Sharing Chores May Contribute to Relationship Happiness The disturbing reality […]

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CCF’s Media Roundup – October 18, 2019

Posted on October 18, 2019 in Biweekly Briefings


CCF MEDIA BRIEF – OCTOBER 18, 2019 CCF MEMBERS IN THE NEWS: Understanding the Financial Risks with Owing Child Support We checked out these dating apps for Trump supporters. Here’s what we found NEW ON THE CCF BLOG: Raising a Village: Identifying Social Supports for All Kinds of Families Children Are Now Back at School, […]

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CCF’s Media Roundup – October 4, 2019

Posted on October 4, 2019 in Biweekly Briefings


  CCF MEMBERS IN THE NEWS: Stay-at-Home Parents Work Hard. Should They Be Paid? There’s a case to be made for feminist marriage — and here’s why NEW ON THE CCF BLOG: Happy Moms, Happier Dads? Less ageism = less Alzheimer’s. It’s that clear. OTHER NEWS: Intensive Care: What Makes a ‘Good’ Parent? Yes, it […]

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CCF’s Media Roundup – September 20, 2019

Posted on September 20, 2019 in Biweekly Briefings


CCF & MEMBERS IN THE NEWS: New CCF Symposium! Parents Can’t Go It Alone—They Never Have: What to Do for Parents to Help Our Next Generation Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life NEW ON THE CCF BLOG: On Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: Interracial Couples and Their Multiracial Children Will […]

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CCF’s Media Roundup – September 6, 2019

Posted on September 10, 2019 in Biweekly Briefings


CCF MEDIA BRIEF – SEPTEMBER 6TH, 2019 CCF MEMBERS IN THE NEWS: Are Engagements the New Marriage? Liv Tyler Seems to Think So–Here’s What Experts Say Show Me the Money: How to Protect Yourself in Gray Divorce Reddit Founder Calls For Better Paternity Leave, Reducing Stigma For Dads Who Take Time Off NEW ON THE […]

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CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup, August 16, 2019

Posted on August 30, 2019 in Biweekly Briefings


CCF MEDIA BRIEF – AUGUST 16TH, 2019 CCF MEMBERS IN THE NEWS: A Centennial Celebration of Suffrage: Stephanie Coontz: ‘The Way We Never Were’ Less Sex, Fewer Babies: Blame The Internet And Career Priorities Is Taking Your Husband’s Last Name So Last Century? Julianne Hough Might Think So, and an Expert Agrees What it means […]

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CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, August 1, 2019

Posted on August 1, 2019 in Biweekly Briefings
Experts: Steven Mintz

CCF Briefing The Golden Girls Would Violate Zoning Laws You Are Probably Overconfident. (If You Skip This, Doubly So.) Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Teens to Get Aid A New Genetic Explanation for Anorexia Domestic Batterers Should Be Tracked on a Watch List Busing Worked in Louisville. So Why Are Its Schools Becoming More Segregated? […]

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CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, July 27, 2019

Posted on July 30, 2019 in Biweekly Briefings
Experts: Steven Mintz

CCF Briefing Laboratories of democracy: what Seattle learned from having the highest minimum wage in the nation How Illinois Became an Abortion-Rights Haven The cost of bail for immigrants is surging Domestic Violence Needs Criminal Justice Reform, Too Who Still Calls it a ‘Glass Ceiling?’ Not the 6 Women Running for President U.S. Couple Sues […]

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CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, July 23, 2019

Posted on July 23, 2019 in Biweekly Briefings
Experts: Steven Mintz

CCF Briefing Why Midsize Cities Struggle to Catch Up to Superstar Cities A Prosperous China Says ‘Men Preferred,’ and Women Lose A Better Way to Manage Your Period? Try the Menstrual Cup, Scientists Say Where Segregation Persists, Trouble Persists To Make It to the Moon, Women Have to Escape Earth’s Gender Bias Do Service Dogs […]

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CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, July 16, 2019

Posted on July 16, 2019 in Biweekly Briefings
Experts: Steven Mintz

CCF Briefing Why Women Getting Abortions Now Are More Likely to Be Poor Why I’m Resisting the Urge to Have Another Kid In Washington, Good Grades for Universal Pre-K I Advise Students Accused of Sexual Assault. Expelling Them Isn’t the Answer. Our Marriage Looks Straight. We’re Not. You Don’t Have to Go to the Border […]

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CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, July 12, 2019

Posted on July 16, 2019 in Biweekly Briefings
Experts: Steven Mintz

CCF Briefing $15 Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty but Cost Jobs, Congress Told in Report ‘If We Do This Right’ Maybe H.I.V. Will Be Forgotten The End of the Gay-Panic Legal Defense All school and no work becoming the norm for American teenagers Mancession revisited Poll: 1 in 4 don’t plan to retire despite realities […]

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CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, July 10, 2019

Posted on July 10, 2019 in Biweekly Briefings
Experts: Steven Mintz

CCF Briefing Glaad’s Bold New Mission: an L.G.B.T. Constitutional Amendment Reefer Madness or Pot Paradise? The Surprising Legacy of the Place Where Legal Weed Began Here’s a look at that historic night at the Stonewall Inn. The 1970 gay-rights march was more overtly radical. Cuomo signs a bill to end ‘gay panic’ defenses in murder […]

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CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, July 8, 2019

Posted on July 10, 2019 in Biweekly Briefings
Experts: Steven Mintz

CCF Briefing Aid in Dying Soon Will be Available to More Americans. Few Will Choose It. Girl on a Red Dirt Road A ‘Second Chance’ After 27 Years in Prison: How Criminal Justice Helped an Ex-Inmate Graduate The Challenge of Caring for a Stroke Patient Employee Activism Is Alive in Tech. It Stops Short of […]

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Recent News & Publications

  • Why Families Need More Financial Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • CCF’s Joshua Coleman on the Complicated Realities of Parental Estrangement
  • New from CCF! Do the Media’s “Sexy Girl” Messages Trump Their “Girl Power” Ones?
  • Media Messages to Young Girls: Does “Sexy Girl” Trump “Girl Power”?
  • CCF Board Member Barbara Risman On How To Help Working Parents While Also Equalizing Children’s Educational Access

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