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 […]
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CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, June 8, 2019

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’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, June 5, 2019

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’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, May 30, 2019

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’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, May 23, 2019

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’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, May 20, 2019

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’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, May 17, 2019

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, […]
CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, May 14, 2019

CCF Briefing Can We Live Longer but Stay Younger? The Trouble With Fathering 114 Kids Capital punishment and death row inmates: A research roundup Housing practices and black wealth The Rise of the Haphazard Self The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men Perry Preschool: Intergenerational Effects Toolkit It’s time to end the callous policy of inmate […]
CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, May 13, 2019

CCF Briefing Why Can’t Men Say ‘I Love You’ to Each Other? Anita Hill: Let’s Talk About How to End Sexual Violence What Do New State Abortion Laws Really Mean for Women? How Many School Shootings Have There Been in 2019? Measles Outbreak: Fears Over New Clusters of Unvaccinated Children in New York Many Hospitals […]
CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, May 8, 2019

CCF Briefing The $100 trillion question: What to do about wealth? Weeding Out Dubious Marijuana Science Standing Against Psychiatry’s Crazes Netflix and Suicide: The Disturbing Example of “13 Reasons Why” Dementia-Friendly Cities Prepare for an Aging Populace The big business of loneliness The End of the Line The future of housing looks nothing like today’s […]
CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, May 5, 2019

CCF Briefing The Myth of Testosterone The Thin Line Between Surgery and Mutilation By AFSHAN JAFAR The American Family Makes This Country Great, and It’s in Danger By JANET MURGUÍA Caster Semenya, Feminist Icon? What ‘Good’ Dads Get Away With Half of People Miss Benefits of Statins When Anti-Immigrant Hatred Was Mainstream How Larry Nassar […]
CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, May 2, 2019

CCF Briefing Supporters of abortion rights should be energized, not demoralized Big Labor’s Big Shrink Is the Immediate Playback of Events Changing Children’s Memories? In Month After ‘13 Reasons Why’ Debut on Netflix, Study Finds Teen Suicide Grew ‘Late Bloomers’ Review: Please Don’t Rush Me ‘Late Bloomers’ Review: Please Don’t Rush Me It’s time to […]
CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, April 29, 2019

CCF Briefing America’s majority minority future The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black. The Home Buyers Are Mostly White. Immigrants for the Heartland How the Upper Middle Class Is Really Doing Alabama’s Gruesome Prisons: Report Finds Rape and Murder at All Hours New statewide study seeks to better understand women’s decisions and experiences with abortion Women Wanted: […]
CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, April 25, 2019

CCF Briefing Nearly 8,000 Boy Scout Leaders Have Been Accused of Sexual Abuse Since 1944, Researcher Found Parenting Like an Economist Is a Lot Less Stressful Parenting Looks Nothing Like What the Experts Say ‘Intensive’ Parenting Is Now the Norm in America There Used to Be Consensus on How to Raise Kids How to Win […]
CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, April 22, 2019

CCF Briefing The Data All Guilt-Ridden Parents Need America’s Invisible Pot Addicts The Military Wants Better Tests for PTSD. Speech Analysis Could Be the Answer. More Benches, Special Goggles: Taking Steps to Assist Older Travelers Will the Supreme Court Protect Gay and Transgender Workers? The Search for a Biomarker for Early Autism Diagnosis How Parents […]