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 […]

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? […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

CCF Briefing Why Women, but Not Men, Are Judged for a Messy House Two newlyweds kiss in the back of a car. Page-Turner People Are Still Getting Married, and This Book Is Here to Help “Elderhood” author on redefining aging and why older people are happier than adults With Labor Market Tight, Some States Loosen […]

CCF Briefing This will be the last CCF Briefing until the week of July 8th. What a ‘Living Wage’ Actually Means Savings Accounts for Disabled Americans Catch On, but Slowly Death of Teenager Who Sought Euthanasia Sets Off Media Flurry, and Corrections Police Are Trained to Confront Suspects. But What if They Are Afraid? For […]

CCF Briefing Seeking Refuge, Legally, and Finding Prison Are We Fighting a War on Homelessness? Or a War on the Homeless? Could Prostitution Be the Next Vice to Be Decriminalized? A boy, a chicken sandwich and a federal case over dinner at Colonial Williamsburg How Successful Are the Marriages of People With Divorced Parents? Let’s […]

CCF Briefing ‘A plunder of black wealth’: Predatory housing contracts gouged Chicago’s black homeowners, new report says Single Mothers Are Surging Into the Work Force By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER AND ERNIE TEDESCHI Want millennials to get married and have babies? Change the policies that stop us. The Loneliness Epidemic Parenting by the Numbers Young People’s […]

CCF Briefing There’s Evidence on How to Raise Children, but Are Parents Listening? Can Data Ward Off College Debt? New Strategy Focuses on Results By KEVIN CAREY Sex education: Why an abstinence-only approach is problematic The health effects of screen time America’s Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals. HUD moves to allow discrimination against homeless […]

CCF Briefing This Is Why Modern Parenting Is So Damn Hard Racial and ethnic estimates of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in the United States (2015–2060) in adults aged ≥65 years What’s new in the quest for Alzheimer’s drugs Five myths about prisons The Myth of ‘Wage Stagnation’ Stressed-Out American Parents Could Learn a Lesson […]

CCF Briefing U.S. Births Fall to Lowest Level Since 1980s Religiously unaffiliated voters are leading U.S. politics into uncharted waters The New Long-Distance Relationship Why the Government Pays Billions to People Who Claim Injury by Vaccines Work in America Is Greedy. But It Doesn’t Have to Be. George Kelling, a Father of ‘Broken Windows’ Policing, […]