FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Barbara J. Risman / Sociology @ University of Illinois at Chicago brisman@uic.edu *Press advisory prepared for CCF by Barbara J. Risman, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago. The CCF Symposium, Parents Can’t Go It Alone, introduces you to important new work about what parents […]
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Executive Summary: Parents Can’t Go It Alone—They Never Have: What to Do for Parents to Help Our Next Generation
*Executive summary prepared for CCF by Barbara J. Risman, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago. Children Are Now Back at School, Time to Focus on What Their Parents Need The birth rate is falling throughout much of the world. Yet many people still want to be parents, and […]
Experts: Barbara Risman
Why No One Can “Have It All” and What to Do About It
A briefing paper prepared by Kathleen Gerson, New York University, for the Council on Contemporary Families’ Symposium Parents Can’t Go It Alone—They Never Have. If debates about women’s rights, relationships between the sexes, and worsening conflicts between paid work and family life seem endless, that’s because Americans can’t agree on what is happening, much less […]
Experts: Kathleen Gerson
Work that Works for Low-Wage Workers
A briefing paper prepared by Maureen Perry-Jenkins, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, for the Council on Contemporary Families’ Symposium Parents Can’t Go It Alone—They Never Have. Low-wage jobs may not be anyone’s ideal for a career, but they are not going away anytime soon. The latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shown (Figure […]
Experts: Maureen Perry-Jenkins
Fears of Violence: Concerns of Middle-Class Latinx Parents
A briefing paper prepared by Lorena Garcia, University of Illinois at Chicago, for the Council on Contemporary Families’ Symposium Parents Can’t Go It Alone—They Never Have. Who doesn’t want their children to grow up happy and healthy? But different families face different challenges. I interviewed 68 newly middle-class Latinx parents in Chicagoland, and learned that […]
Mothering While Black
A briefing paper prepared by Dawn Marie Dow, the University of Maryland, for the Council on Contemporary Families’ Symposium Parents Can’t Go It Alone—They Never Have. It is common for observers to talk about a “stalled revolution” in family life. Most American mothers raising small children now work outside of the home, but the […]
Dads Count Too: Family-Friendly Policies Must Include Fathers
A briefing paper prepared by Stephanie Coontz, Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families, for the Council on Contemporary Families’ Symposium Parents Can’t Go It Alone—They Never Have. A major obstacle to the successful coordination of work and family life in today’s world is the assumption that this is primarily […]
Experts: Stephanie Coontz
Raising a Village: Identifying Social Supports for All Kinds of Families
A briefing paper prepared by Caitlyn Collins, Washington University in St. Louis, for the Council on Contemporary Families’ Symposium Parents Can’t Go It Alone—They Never Have. Two-thirds of mothers today work outside the home in wealthy Western countries. Despite this similarity, mothers’ experiences managing their work and family commitments vary a lot from country to […]
CCF’s Media Roundup – September 6, 2019
CCF MEDIA BRIEF – SEPTEMBER 6TH, 2019 CCF MEMBERS IN THE NEWS: Are Engagements the New Marriage? Liv Tyler Seems to Think So–Here’s What Experts Say Show Me the Money: How to Protect Yourself in Gray Divorce Reddit Founder Calls For Better Paternity Leave, Reducing Stigma For Dads Who Take Time Off NEW ON THE […]
CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup, August 16, 2019
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 […]
CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, August 1, 2019
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? […]
Experts: Steven Mintz
CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, July 27, 2019
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 […]
Experts: Steven Mintz
CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, July 23, 2019
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 […]
Experts: Steven Mintz
CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, July 16, 2019
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 […]
Experts: Steven Mintz
CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, July 12, 2019
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 […]
Experts: Steven Mintz