CCF Briefing With each puff, a wider socioeconomic gap: The rich stopped smoking, the poor didn’t Don’t count on millennials to save the West The Car Was Repossessed, but the Debt Remains Five myths about fatherhood Stemming the Rise in Opioid Deaths China, Where the Pressure to Marry Is Strong, and the Advice Flows Online […]
CCF members Daniel Carlson and Amanda Miller respond to new research on declining sexual frequency among American couples. In their Op-ed, they debunk four common myths about couples’ sex lives, highlighting important factors that predict sexual frequency and relationship satisfaction. Read the Op-ed on CNN here.
CCF Briefing ‘We Are Not Unusual Anymore’: 50 Years of Mixed-Race Marriage in U.S. Is Online Ed Missing the Mark? Trump is not destiny. Here’s what is. Having Friends Is Good for You When Opioid Addicts Find an Ally in Blue There’s No Magical Savings in Showing Prices to Doctors Sexual Abusers Shouldn’t Be Allowed […]
CCF Briefing From polygamy to pornography, Americans are getting more permissive In Cosby Trial, Treatment of Women by Powerful Men Has Its Day in Court When a Pet Dies, Helping Children Through the ‘Worst Day of Their Lives’ When Your Personal War on Cancer Is Exhausting The Benefits of Talking to Yourself How Prejudice Can […]
Michelle Janning’s recent release, The Stuff of Family Life, offers a timely look at how modern society and technology shapes our relationships and our lives. Like an archaeologist studying ancient civilizations through the things they left behind, Janning excavates contemporary life through our houses and possessions, from childhood stuffed animals and security blankets to retirement […]
CCF Briefing “What if marriage is overrated?” Why getting rid of grades would help rich students — and hurt poor ones As graduates obsess about jobs, colleges cut spending on career services Salaries Soar for the Class of 2017 Achievement Gap a National Crisis The Lonely Women of the Rust Belt What’s Behind the Rise […]
CCF Briefing Companies Compete but Won’t Let Their Workers Do the Same Lawsuit Presses the Issue of Lower Pay for Female Law Partners On Health and Welfare, Moral Arguments Outweigh Economics Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable Younger Men, Older Women: A Pairing Becomes More Common The ‘Best’ Places to Move in Retirement? They’re All […]
CCF Briefing Shaming Children So Parents Will Pay the School Lunch Bill Too Scared to Report Sexual Abuse. The Fear: Deportation. D.C. Vouchers Are Found to Bring Lower Test Scores but Higher Safety It’s a Good Time to Trade Your Student Debt for Home Debt What’s Not to Like About Pre-K? Tips for Living Together […]
CCF Briefing XOXO Campaign: Will It Spell Profit or Trouble for Condom Maker? Ousted Over Sexual Misconduct Claims, and On to the Next Teaching Job Where Machismo Is Entrenched, Focus Moves to the Trenches Planned Parenthood founded on racism, belief in protecting society against ‘the unfit’ More people than ever before are single – and […]
CCF Briefing Homeless Youth at High Risk of Human Trafficking Ranks of Scientists Aging Faster Than Other Workers A California Court for Young Adults Calls on Science When Hate Leads to Depression Sorry, Republicans, but most people support single-payer health care My Daughter Is Not Transgender. She’s a Tomboy. First Comes Tinder. Then Comes Marriage? […]
CCF Briefing Separation and Stigma: Transgender Youth and School Facilities European Court Strikes Down Required Sterilization for Transgender People Why more men will soon find themselves doing “women’s work” Medical Debt: You May Not Owe It Doctors once treated alcoholism with heroin. Now, they want to treat heroin addiction with marijuana. The Science of ‘I […]
CCF Briefing We need good data on LGBT Americans to craft inclusive policy Homelessness is a solvable problem For kids with autism, imitation is key on road to speech If ‘Roe v. Wade’ Falls, Women Will Go to Jail Google Pays Female Workers Less Than Male Counterparts, Labor Department Says Anxiety on the Rise Generation […]
CCF Briefing To Ease The Student Debt Crisis, Hold Colleges Responsible What a Muppet With Autism Means to My Family Short Answers to Hard Questions About HPV Hannah Is a Girl. Doctors Finally Treat Her Like One. I’m Not Texting. I’m Taking Notes. PTA Gift for Someone Else’s Child? A Touchy Subject in California Do […]
CCF Briefing Why It’s Become So Hard to Get an Abortion The Class Geography of New York City The High Price of a Divided City Letting Ex-Felons Vote Doesn’t Matter (Except When It Does) Analyzing racial disparities in school discipline The insidiousness of unconscious bias in schools Retirement planning and its role in wealth inequality […]
Some men feel the need to compensate for relative loss of income to women. How they do so varies A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Dan Cassino, Professor of Political Science, Fairleigh Dickinson University. March 31, 2017 As Pepin and Cotter’s new work shows, attitudes towards gender equality across different domains […]
