CCF Media Brief – April 30, 2021

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – APRIL 30, 2021

NEW BRIEF REPORT FROM CCF!

1. Staying Ready, Staying Vigilant, Staying Safe: Hyperarousal and hypervigilance in African American male adolescents exposed to community violence

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS:

2. The Burden of Being ‘On Point’
3. What women want: Reopened schools and workplace flexibility
4. Parents want to work from home for good. But for moms, the effects could be dire.
5. To Keep Women in the Workforce, Men Need to Do More at Home
6. What’s in Biden’s American Families Plan — and does it meet experts’ expectations and hopes?
7. Parents Are Sacrificing Their Social Lives on the Altar of Intensive Parenting
8. What Would You Do Without Student Debt? A Study From UNC Greensboro Put The Question To Recent Graduates.

NEW WORK BY CCF EXPERTS*

9. Relational and Partner-Specific Factors Influencing Black Heterosexual Women’s Initiation of Sexual Intercourse and Orgasm Frequency
10. Social Motivations for College Hookups
11. Social Norms and Expectations about Student Loans and Family Formation

NEW ON THE CCF BLOG:

12. Multiracial children and their family lives
13. “It’s My Responsibility, Nobody Else”: Doing Motherhood

OTHER NEWS:

14. The one word women need to be saying more often
15. The Progressive Case for a Unified Child Benefit
16. Millions of Americans are about to get hit with diaper sticker shock
17. Why public school teachers need paid family and medical leave

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1. Staying Ready, Staying Vigilant, Staying Safe: Hyperarousal and hypervigilance in African American male adolescents exposed to community violence
   https://contemporaryfamilies.org/african-american-hypervigilance-briefing-paper/

2. The Burden of Being ‘On Point’
   https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/04/black-boys-trauma-misunderstood-behavior/618684/
   Too often, traumatized Black boys’ behavior is pathologized. It’s actually rational.

3. What women want: Reopened schools and workplace flexibility
   https://www.deseret.com/2021/4/15/22382283/what-women-want-reopened-schools-and-workplace-flexibility-pandemic-economic-recovery-biden-equality
   In a new Deseret News event, experts discuss why the pandemic put women out of work and what can be done about it

4. Parents want to work from home for good. But for moms, the effects could be dire.
   https://www.thelily.com/parents-want-to-work-from-home-for-good-for-moms-the-effects-could-be-dire/
   Mothers used to be stigmatized for working from home. Those stereotypes may persist, experts say.

5. To Keep Women in the Workforce, Men Need to Do More at Home
   https://hbr.org/2021/04/to-keep-women-in-the-workforce-men-need-to-do-more-at-home?ab=hero-subleft-2

6. What’s in Biden’s American Families Plan — and does it meet experts’ expectations and hopes?
   https://www.deseret.com/2021/4/27/22405525/joe-biden-american-family-plan-paid-leave-child-care-tax-credit-education-mike-lee-mitt-romney-utah
   Paid leave, child care and universal pre-K are among what experts and insiders say will help America’s families.

7. Parents Are Sacrificing Their Social Lives on the Altar of Intensive Parenting
   https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/04/intensive-parenting-bad-parents-social-lives/618629/
   Inequality has seemingly caused many American parents to jettison friendships and activities in order to invest more resources in their kids.

8. What Would You Do Without Student Debt? A Study From UNC Greensboro Put The Question To Recent Graduates.
   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
   College graduates who have student debt are more likely to delay milestones like getting married, buying a house or having children.

9. Relational and Partner-Specific Factors Influencing Black Heterosexual Women’s Initiation of Sexual Intercourse and Orgasm Frequency
   https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12119-020-09780-y

10. Social Motivations for College Hookups
    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12119-020-09786-6

11. Social Norms and Expectations about Student Loans and Family Formation
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soin.12416

12. Multiracial children and their family lives
    https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2021/04/20/multiracial-children-and-their-family-lives/

13. “It’s My Responsibility, Nobody Else”: Doing Motherhood
    https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2021/04/27/its-my-responsibility-nobody-else-doing-motherhood/

14. The one word women need to be saying more often
    https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/life/health-wellness/2021/04/20/why-its-so-hard-for-women-to-say-no/7302181002/
    If you’re a woman, when was the last time you said “no” to a friend, your partner, a colleague or your kid?

15. The Progressive Case for a Unified Child Benefit
    https://cepr.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Unified-Child-Benefit-Fremstad.pdf

16. Millions of Americans are about to get hit with diaper sticker shock
    https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/23/business/diaper-costs-families-poverty/index.html
    Diapers are a pricey, essential item for parents. Now, they’re getting even more expensive, hurting low-income families already struggling with the pandemic’s economic woes.

17. Why public school teachers need paid family and medical leave
    https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-why-public-school-teachers-need-paid-family-and-medical-leave/
    In post-pandemic planning, needs of teachers should not be left behind

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*CCF Experts are welcome to send recently published work to michael_garcia@utexas.edu. Please limit submissions to work published within the past 60 days. 

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