Council on Contemporary Families
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • RSS
Yes, I want to support CCF's work
  • Home
  • About
    • About CCF
    • The Society Pages
    • Make a Gift
    • Become a Friend of CCF
    • CCF’s Student Internship Program
  • CCF News & Events
    • Biweekly Media Briefings
    • News & Upcoming Events
    • Members In The News
    • About the CCF Media Awards
  • Publications
    • By Topic
      • Aging
      • Economic Inequality
      • Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce
      • Family Counseling, Therapy & Parenting Intervention
      • Gender & Sexuality
      • Health & Illness
      • LGBTQ Partnering & Families
      • Parenthood
      • Public Policy
        • Aging (Public Policy)
        • Child Welfare
        • Health Care
        • Labor & Workforce
        • Marriage & Divorce
        • Reproductive Health
        • TANF & Public Assistance
      • Race, Ethnicity & Culture
        • African American Families
        • Asian American Families
        • Latino Families
      • Singles & Dating
      • Work & Family
    • By Publication Type
      • Brief Reports
      • Fact Sheets
      • Online Symposia
        • 2019 Defining Consent Symposium
        • 2019 Parents Can’t Go It Alone Symposium
        • 2018 Gender Matters Symposium
        • 2017 Gender and Millennials Symposium
        • 2016 Welfare Reform Symposium
        • 2015 Intimate Partner Violence Symposium
        • 2015 Housework, Gender, and Parenthood Symposium
        • 2014 New Inequalities Symposium
        • 2014 Gender Revolution Rebound Symposium
      • Press Releases
      • Unconventional Wisdom
      • Opinion Pieces
    • CCF Books
      • Families as They Really Are (2009)
      • Revised Edition Ensuring Inequality
  • Conferences
    • 2020 CCF Conference
      • 2020 Conference Registration
      • 2020 CCF Conference Program
      • 2020 Flash Session & Pamela Smock Travel Award
    • Previous Conference Archives
      • 2018 CCF Conference – Highlights, Pictures, and More!
      • 2016 CCF Conference – Recap!
      • 2014 CCF Conference – Highlights, Summary Talks, Pictures, and More!
  • Membership
    • New Membership
    • Membership Profile Update
  • Experts
    • Find an Expert
    • View by Topics

CCF’s Media Roundup – February 19, 2020

Posted on February 18, 2020 in Biweekly Briefings, CCF News

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – FEBRUARY 19, 2020

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS:

  1. How to Make Your Marriage Gayer
  2. Don’t Marry a Man Who Doesn’t Vacuum
  3. 6 signs you’re pushing away your adult children
  4. Solitude and the creative life
  5. The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
  6. If the Nuclear Family Has Failed, What Comes Next?
  7. Men Who Do Household Chores Are More Sexually Attractive To Women, Research Suggests
  8. Why Love and Marriage Didn’t Always Go Hand In Hand
  9. If You Want a Marriage of Equals, Then Date as Equals
  10. Rather than judging Pete Buttigieg’s marriage, straight America may want to take a cue or two from it

NEW ON THE CCF BLOG:

  1. Highlights from the 2020 CCF Conference
  2. The Puzzling Persistence of Gendered Dating
  3. National Spouses Day Was Last Week…. Feeling Any Pressure? A Fact Sheet on Prospects for Marriage in Contemporary America

OTHER NEWS:

  1. Why Teenagers Reject Parents’ Solutions to Their Problems
  2. Women Who Survive Domestic Abuse More Likely to Develop Heart Disease, Diabetes, Die of Any Cause
  3. Singles Awareness Day: The benefits of being single
  4. Dwyane Wade’s unflinching support of his trans daughter is a turning point
  5. Facial Recognition Moves Into a New Front: Schools
  6. The Loneliness of Early Parenthood
  7. The eco gender gap: why is saving the planet seen as women’s work?
  8. Is it impossible to breastfeed and have a full-time job?
  9. Americans have fewer kids than they say they want. Alaska has a solution.
  10. The Consequences of Leaning on Your Child For Emotional Support

—

  1. How to Make Your Marriage Gayer
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/opinion/sunday/marriage-housework-gender-happiness.html
    Same-sex spouses feel more satisfied with their partners than heterosexual ones. What’s the secret?
  1. Don’t Marry a Man Who Doesn’t Vacuum
    https://gen.medium.com/dont-marry-a-man-who-doesn-t-vacuum-90e8a514ae2c
    Women beware: Nearly half of American men still want a housewife
  1. 6 signs you’re pushing away your adult children
    https://www.considerable.com/life/family/parental-alientation/
    Parental alienation is a real problem. You want to spend more time with them, but they’re always too busy. Here’s what’s going on — and how you can fix it.
  1. Solitude and the creative life
    https://whyy.org/episodes/solitude-and-the-creative-life/
  1. The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-nuclear-family-was-a-mistake/605536/
    The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.
  1. If the Nuclear Family Has Failed, What Comes Next?
    https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/02/nuclear-family-multigenerational-cohousing-depaulo/606511/
    Many Americans are reimagining life at home, exploring models of kinship and community that might help more people flourish.
  1. Men Who Do Household Chores Are More Sexually Attractive To Women, Research Suggests
    https://www.bolde.com/men-household-chores-attractive-women/
  1. Why Love and Marriage Didn’t Always Go Hand In Hand
    https://www.wnpr.org/post/why-love-and-marriage-didnt-always-go-hand-hand
    Full interview: https://www.wnpr.org/post/surprisingly-unromantic-history-marriage
  1. If You Want a Marriage of Equals, Then Date as Equals
    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/if-you-want-marriage-equals-then-date-equals/606568/
    Why are many dating practices a throwback to an earlier era?
  1. Rather than judging Pete Buttigieg’s marriage, straight America may want to take a cue or two from it
    https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/heidi-stevens/ct-heidi-stevens-what-gay-marriages-can-teach-straight-people-0218-20200218-op5y7fmcmfgcpfjzqmy55g6upu-story.html
  1. Highlights from the 2020 CCF Conference
    https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2020/02/11/highlights-from-the-2020-ccf-conference/
  1. The Puzzling Persistence of Gendered Dating
    https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2020/02/18/2220/
  1. National Spouses Day Was Last Week…. Feeling Any Pressure? A Fact Sheet on Prospects for Marriage in Contemporary America
    https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2020/02/04/national-spouses-day-was-last-week-feeling-any-pressure-a-fact-sheet-on-prospects-for-marriage-in-contemporary-america/
  1. Why Teenagers Reject Parents’ Solutions to Their Problems
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/well/family/why-teenagers-reject-parents-solutions-to-their-problems.html
    It’s usually because we’re not giving them what they’re really looking for.
  1. Women Who Survive Domestic Abuse More Likely to Develop Heart Disease, Diabetes, Die of Any Cause
    https://www.newsweek.com/women-survive-domestic-abuse-heart-disease-diabetes-all-cause-mortality-1487630
    The study involved tens of thousands of women, including over 18,000 who experienced domestic abuse.
  1. Singles Awareness Day: The benefits of being single
    https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/15/health/single-awareness-day-loneliness-benefits-wellness/index.html
  1. Dwyane Wade’s unflinching support of his trans daughter is a turning point
    https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/2/14/21137163/dwyane-wade-zaya-transgender-daughter
    Black trans kids desperately need public support. Wade’s moment on Ellen DeGeneres’s show is only the beginning.
  1. Facial Recognition Moves Into a New Front: Schools
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/business/facial-recognition-schools.html
    A district in New York has adopted the technology in the name of safety. Opponents cite privacy and bias concerns.
  1. The Loneliness of Early Parenthood
    https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/02/loneliness-early-parenthood-mothers-estrange-friendships/606100/
    It’s common to feel socially isolated after having a baby, but estrangement from friends doesn’t have to last forever.
  1. The eco gender gap: why is saving the planet seen as women’s work?
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/06/eco-gender-gap-why-saving-planet-seen-womens-work
    From soap to reusable cutlery, green products are overwhelmingly marketed to and bought by women. Does this discourage men from taking responsibility?
  1. Is it impossible to breastfeed and have a full-time job?
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/06/us-breastfeeding-financial-burden
    US working mothers who wish to breastfeed must navigate a lack of sufficient maternity leave and unspoken financial costs – not to mention time
  1. Americans have fewer kids than they say they want. Alaska has a solution.
    https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/7/21125303/alaska-basic-income-birth-rate-fertility
    Alaska’s small basic income is causing parents to have more kids.
  1. The Consequences of Leaning on Your Child For Emotional Support
    https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/relationships/father-and-child-relationships/parentification-parents-relying-kids-for-emotional-support/
    Children are naturally empathic so it’s easy for moms and dads to place children in situations where they feel more like parents than children. But this behavior can be extremely damaging.
Post Views: 524
Share

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

Featured Expert

Elizabeth Gershoff

Professor, University of Texas at Austin

View Expert

Browse Publications by Topic

  • Adoption & Foster Care
  • Aging
  • Biracial/ Multicultural Children and Interracial/ Multicultural Families
  • Childcare (Providers & Systems)
  • Children
  • Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage
  • Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce
  • Division of Labor in Families
  • Domestic Violence & Child Abuse
  • Economic Inequality
  • Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities)
  • Family Counseling, Therapy & Parenting Intervention
  • Family Law
  • Feminism & Families
  • Fertility,Reproduction & Sexual Health
  • Gender & Sexuality
  • Health & Illness
  • History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life
  • Immigrant, Mixed Status & Transnational Families
  • LGBTQ Partnering & Families
  • Loss & Resiliency within Families
  • Media Briefs
  • Military Families
  • Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood
  • Public Policy
  • Race, Ethnicity & Culture
  • Sexual Abuse & Misconduct
  • Singles & Dating
  • Step-Families
  • Transition – Adolescents to Adulthood
  • Transition – Couples to Parenting
  • Trauma and Disaster
  • Work & Family

The Council of Contemporary Families is housed at the University of Texas at Austin through the generous support from:

Why should you support CCF?

Loading Quotes...
© 2014 Council on Contemporary Families - Web Design by HelloAri - Managed by CCF Admin Team