CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, January 20, 2018

CCF Briefing

1. How to Maintain Friendships
2. The #MeToo Moment: Parsing the Generational Divide
3. Can Democrats Follow #MeToo to Victory?
4. Profiting from Addiction
5. Should You Give the Engagement Ring Back?
6. Sex After Cancer
7. There’s Been A Massive Shift To The Right In The Immigration Debate
8. When States Make It Harder to Enroll, Even Eligible People Drop Medicaid
9. The U.S. Fertility Rate Is Down, Yet More Women Are Mothers
10. The Power of Human Touch
11. Will the #MeToo Moment Shape the Cosby Case?
12. #MeToo and the Marketing of Female Narrative
13. Young Women Are Using A.D.H.D. Drugs in Greater Numbers, C.D.C. Reports
14. More College Students Seem to Be Majoring in Perfectionism
15. Health Workers Who Oppose Abortion Get New Protections
16. Title IX Failures
17. This Way Up: New Thinking About Poverty and Economic Mobility
18. A Medicaid work requirement isn’t cruel
19. One Day Your Mind May Fade. At Least You’ll Have a Plan.
20. Can Software Predict Crime? Maybe So, but No Better Than a Human
21. How the Pro-Life Movement Has Promoted Liberal Values
22. The Shadow Safety Net
23. Why Asking About Citizenship Could Make the Census Less Accurate
24. Don’t Mind the Day Care Downstairs
25. Why New York Hires 200 People to Pretend They’re Homeless
26. Online Courses Are Harming the Students Who Need the Most Help
27. Why Has the Golden State Beome the Poverty Capital of the U.S.?
28. This Is Not a Sex Panic
29. Science Is Giving the Pro-Life Movement a Boost
30. The Students Who Don’t Believe College Is an Option
31. Getting Tough on Sex Traffickers
32. Why Is Pennsylvania Still Suspending Driver’s Licenses for Drug Offenses?
33. How to Save Football Players’ Brains
34. The Women’s March Became a Movement. What’s Next?
35. Donald Trump and His Work Wives
36. There’s Community and Consensus. But It’s No Commune.
37. Here’s How to Deal With Men (Thwack!)
38. We Need Bodice-Ripper Sex Ed

1. How to Maintain Friendships

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/smarter-living/how-to-maintain-friends.html

Keeping cherished friendships afloat doesn’t need to be a huge time commitment.

2. The #MeToo Moment: Parsing the Generational Divide

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/us/the-metoo-moment-parsing-the-generational-divide.html

The debate surrounding accusations against Aziz Ansari highlights generational differences in the way women say #metoo.

3. Can Democrats Follow #MeToo to Victory?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/opinion/democrats-metoo-sexual-harassment.html

Examines a growing divergence on gender issues between male and female voters under the age of 30.

4. Profiting from Addiction

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/podcasts/the-daily/drug-addiction-treatment.html

Getting clean has become a lucrative business. But the death of a patient in California has raised questions about what it means to profit from the health crisis.

5. Should You Give the Engagement Ring Back?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/fashion/weddings/should-you-give-the-engagement-ring-back.html

Most courts say the ring is part of a contract and if you said yes to the proposal, give it back when the wedding is off.

6. Sex After Cancer

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/well/live/sex-after-cancer.html

It can be difficult to experience desire if you fear your body or if you cannot recognize it as your own.

7. There’s Been A Massive Shift To The Right In The Immigration Debate

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/theres-been-a-massive-shift-to-the-right-in-the-immigration-debate/

With Republicans in control of the White House and Congress, and some of the party pushing a hard anti-immigrant stance, Democrats and immigration advocates have had to greatly temper their hopes for reform.

8. When States Make It Harder to Enroll, Even Eligible People Drop Medicaid

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/upshot/medicaid-enrollment-obstacles-kentucky-work-requirement.html

Kentucky’s new Medicaid waiver will ask low-income people to jump over hurdles to keep their coverage. Evidence suggests that many will fail.

9. The U.S. Fertility Rate Is Down, Yet More Women Are Mothers

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/upshot/the-us-fertility-rate-is-down-yet-more-women-are-mothers.html

The biggest increases have come from some groups who in the past were far less likely to have babies: highly educated women, those over 40, and women who have never been married.

10. The Power of Human Touch

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/opinion/human-touch-aziz-ansari.html

Touch comes with risks, as expressed about the well-publicized Aziz Ansari date.

11. Will the #MeToo Moment Shape the Cosby Case?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/arts/television/will-the-metoo-moment-shape-the-cosby-case.html

Bill Cosby’s retrial on sexual assault charges will unfold in a different America, where judge and jury have seen the power of multiple accounts by women.

12. #MeToo and the Marketing of Female Narrative

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/nyregion/metoo-and-the-marketing-of-female-narrative.html

We are living in a high moment for feminism, but we all reveal our implicit biases through the internet everyday.

13. Young Women Are Using A.D.H.D. Drugs in Greater Numbers, C.D.C. Reports

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/health/adhd-drugs-women.html

Since 2003, the percentage of women filling prescriptions for drugs like Ritalin has increased nearly fivefold in some age groups.

14. More College Students Seem to Be Majoring in Perfectionism

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/well/family/more-college-students-seem-to-be-majoring-in-perfectionism.html

New data indicates that perfectionism, especially when influenced by social media, has increased by 33 percent since 1989.

15. Health Workers Who Oppose Abortion Get New Protections

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/us/health-care-office-abortion-contraception.html

The Trump administration announced a new “conscience and religious freedom” office to protect health workers who oppose abortion, sex-changes and some contraception.

16. Title IX Failures

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/01/19/feds-find-buffalo-state-failed-investigate-alleged-sexual-assault-created-hostile

Buffalo State failed to investigate an alleged sexual assault or respond to a female athlete’s requests, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights found. The findings of investigators reconfirm college’s obligations to investigate off-campus incidents, the department’s former civil rights chief says.

17. This Way Up: New Thinking About Poverty and Economic Mobility

http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/This-Way-Up.pdf

Proposals for welfare reform, wage subsidies, workforce training, school choice, and restoring the norms of marriage and responsible parenting

18. A Medicaid work requirement isn’t cruel

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-17/medicaid-work-requirement-should-be-given-a-chance

The decision “is completely reasonable,” targeting only “able-bodied adults of working age.” It doesn’t apply to “the elderly, to pregnant women or to the disabled.” Moreover, work “is construed broadly to include community service, education, job training, volunteer service and treatment for substance abuse,” among other things. Nor is it being imposed on states, which can “be flexible on how far to go.”

19. One Day Your Mind May Fade. At Least You’ll Have a Plan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/health/dementia-advance-directive.html

A doctor has developed an advance directive specifically to plan for medical care in the event of dementia.

20. Can Software Predict Crime? Maybe So, but No Better Than a Human

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/us/computer-software-human-decisions.html

A study published in Science Advances suggests that amateurs are about as accurate as the COMPAS software that many judges use to inform their decisions.

21. How the Pro-Life Movement Has Promoted Liberal Values

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/opinion/abortion-roe-wade-liberals.html

Right-to-life advocacy supported the advance of free speech.

22. The Shadow Safety Net

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/opinion/the-shadow-safety-net.html

Federal and local governments are not doing their jobs, so nonprofit organizations are working to fill the void.

23. Why Asking About Citizenship Could Make the Census Less Accurate

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/upshot/census-citizenship-hispanics-immigrants-mistrust.html

Distrust of the government’s intentions toward noncitizens may be hard to overcome, research suggests, and political developments have increased levels of distrust.

24. Don’t Mind the Day Care Downstairs

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/realestate/the-day-care-downstairs.html

More than half of the day care centers in New York City are home-based, which means toddlers often get dropped off in residential buildings.

25. Why New York Hires 200 People to Pretend They’re Homeless

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/nyregion/new-york-city-hope-homeless-count-decoys.html

During an annual count of homeless people on the streets of New York, decoys, many of whom were once homeless, help gauge the accuracy of the count.

26. Online Courses Are Harming the Students Who Need the Most Help

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/business/online-courses-are-harming-the-students-who-need-the-most-help.html

Online education helps school districts that need to save money make do with fewer teachers. But there is mounting evidence that struggling students suffer.

27. Why Has the Golden State Beome the Poverty Capital of the U.S.?

http://www.iwf.org/blog/2805599/Why-Has-the-Golden-State-Beome-the-Poverty-Capital-of-the-U.S.-

California has surpassed Mississippi and West Virginia to claim the dubious honor of being the state with the highest poverty rate.

Also see:  https://www.city-journal.org/html/california-poverty-capital-15659.html

28. This Is Not a Sex Panic

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/this-is-not-a-sex-panic/550547/

Stories of gray areas are exactly what more men need to hear.

29. Science Is Giving the Pro-Life Movement a Boost

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/pro-life-pro-science/549308/

Advocates are tracking new developments in neonatal research and technology—and transforming one of America’s most contentious debates.

30. The Students Who Don’t Believe College Is an Option

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/01/the-students-who-dont-believe-college-is-an-option/550715/

The proportion of graduates from predominantly nonwhite rural schools who pursue higher education is declining.

31. Getting Tough on Sex Traffickers

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/opinion/getting-tough-on-sex-traffickers.html

Gangs increasingly rely on sex trafficking to support themselves.

32. Why Is Pennsylvania Still Suspending Driver’s Licenses for Drug Offenses?

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/taking-the-high-road-on-drivers-license-suspensions/550688/

Close to 150,000 people have lost driving privileges in Pennsylvania between 2011 and 2016 because of a policy dating back to a 1991 federal law.

33. How to Save Football Players’ Brains

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-save-football-players-brains-1516403567?mod=djemMER

One simple rule change would solve much of the problem: Require the linemen to stand up.

34. The Women’s March Became a Movement. What’s Next?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/us/womens-march-metoo.html

Women’s marches drew more than a million people a year ago. This time around, they come amid a broader cultural challenge to men’s power and privilege.

35. Donald Trump and His Work Wives

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/opinion/donald-trump-and-his-work-wives.html

What does Hope Hicks do, exactly? Vast amounts of emotional labor.

36. There’s Community and Consensus. But It’s No Commune.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/business/cohousing-communities.html

A small movement with an ungainly name, cohousing, is appealing to more people of retirement age — and younger — who no longer want to be isolated.

37. Here’s How to Deal With Men (Thwack!)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/style/confronting-sexual-harassment-dominatrix-training.html

This former dominatrix is teaching women tools to confront harassment and sexist behavior.

38. We Need Bodice-Ripper Sex Ed

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/opinion/sunday/romance-novels-sex-ed.html

Romance novels taught me that sexual pleasure was something women could not just hope for but insist upon.