CCF Briefing Pregnancy was overlooked by scientists for years. Now it’s finally getting the attention it deserves. The 11-year-old Argentine girl is not alone. Latin America’s abortion laws are a form of torture. The ‘heartbreaking’ decrease in black homeownership It turns out Americans weren’t ready to become a nation of renters. Homeownership is back in. […]
CCF Briefing The Opioid Crisis Isn’t White England Greatly Expands Sex Education, Despite Some Parents’ Protests California court ruling could deter college students from reporting sexual assault Biggest winners and losers from degrees The Jail Health-Care Crisis The Geography of Partisan Prejudice These Are the Americans Who Live in a Bubble On Not Believing Leaving […]
CCF Briefing When Schools Tell Kids They Can’t Use the Bathroom The ‘Hidden Mechanisms’ That Help Those Born Rich to Excel in Elite Jobs Well-meaning offers to help someone who’s depressed sometimes go awry. Here’s how to really make a difference. The Opioid Crisis Isn’t White England Greatly Expands Sex Education, Despite Some Parents’ Protests […]
CCF Briefing Who Needs Gender? Why Men and Women Are Dressing Identically On-Demand Grandkids and Robot Pals to Keep Senior Loneliness at Bay ‘Day Care For All’: How America Views Universal Pre-K Why Celibacy Matters Why the Priesthood Needs Women The Most Talked About Non-Topic at the Vatican? Homosexuality. Stop Counting Women It’s Not That […]
CCF Briefing What research says about teachers unions Do You Want to Be Pregnant? It’s Not Always a Yes-or-No Answer The Link Between Menopause and Alzheimer’s The stark divide in black and white economic mobility in America These Are the Americans Who Live in a Bubble The Racial Divide Is the Political Divide A Court […]
CCF Briefing Why are out-of-work men so unhappy in the US? At major colleges, sexual assaults most likely off-campus Intimacy and sex are important for well-being for older adults For decades, women on the Pill suffered. They didn’t have to. Does parental quality matter? Evidence on the transmission of human capital How Parkland Was Different, […]
CCF Briefing The Nightmare of Human Organ Harvesting in China ‘This One Here Is Gonna Kick My Butt’—Farm Belt Bankruptcies Are Soaring Doctors Surprised by Scope of Adult-Onset Food Allergies The measure of a country is how it treats its prisoners. The U.S. is failing. ‘It’s a sickness’: How our culture recognizes blackface is racist […]
A fact sheet prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Youngmin Yi, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Cornell University. February 6, 2019 Household Instability and Complexity among Undocumented Immigrants In the absence of clear pathways to citizenship, undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants who came to the United States as children, commonly known as […]
CCF Briefing The State of Poverty and Disadvantage in New York City Japan’s Working Mothers: Record Responsibilities. Little Help from Dads He Committed Murder. Then He Graduated From an Elite Law School. Would You Hire Him as Your Attorney? Woman Killed by Fire in Menstruation Hut, as Nepal Fights a Tradition You Don’t Keep a […]
CCF Briefing How the justice system criminalizes the poor — and funds itself in the process E-Cigarettes Are Effective at Helping Smokers Quit, a Study Says Hopeful Would-Be Parents Shop Jobs for I.V.F. Coverage Early-Voting Laws Probably Don’t Boost Turnout Many Families May Need Months to Recover From the Shutdown The Shutdown Showed How Precarious […]
CCF Briefing Can Suicide Be Prevented? The Great Divide in How Americans Commute to Work How to raise an extroverted child in a world that loves introverts The divorce fairness issue that Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos don’t have to worry about How Divorces Work for the Super-Wealthy The Personality Trait That Makes People Feel Comfortable […]
JSTOR looks beyond the hype to examine what the “sex recession” is and whether we should be concerned about it. Several CCF experts weighed in on why the fear of a “sex recession” is misdirected. For example, Daniel Carlson explains how the amount of sex is not strongly linked to how satisfied you are with […]
CCF Briefing The Fight Over Men Is Shaping Our Political Future #ThemToo Levels and Trends in Child Mortality Report 2018 When Social Services Undermine Well-being Masculinity Isn’t a Sickness Overlooked No More: Isabelle Kelley, Who Developed a Food Stamp Program to Feed Millions 5 Takeaways From the Ancient DNA Research Story Thousands More Migrant Children […]
CCF Briefing Who Foots the Bill? Families Fight Over College Debt Risk of Police-Involved Death by Race/Ethnicity and Place, United States, 2012–2018 Canada still has a lot to do for women and refugees Americans more likely to die of opioid overdose than car crash The Status of School Discipline in State Policy Why Families Break […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Virginia Rutter / Sociology @ Framingham State University vrutter@gmail.com Sociologist Jill Yavorsky conducted a field audit on gender discrimination in hiring and shares this early exclusive summary and commentary with CCF. Her brief report, Hiring-related Discrimination: Sexist Beliefs and Expectations Hurt both Women’s and Men’s Career Options, shows that men as […]
