CCF MEDIA BRIEF – NOVEMBER 15, 2019 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: More And More Millennials And Gen Z Are Choosing Abstinence — Here’s Why Goldman Sachs now offers the most generous parental-leave policy on Wall Street. But the data says men won’t take it unless a ‘daddy quota’ becomes mandatory. NEW ON THE CCF […]
CCF MEDIA BRIEF – NOVEMBER 1, 2019 NEW FROM CCF: New CCF symposium! Defining Consent New CCF fact sheet! 10 Scary Facts About Child Poverty NEW ON THE BLOG: Mothering While Black Fears of Violence: Concerns of Middle-Class Latinx Parents CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Sharing Chores May Contribute to Relationship Happiness The disturbing reality […]
10 Scary Facts About Child Poverty A fact sheet prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Dr. Jennifer Glass, Executive Director, Council on Contemporary Families and Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin. Believe it or not, Halloween has its origins in folk customs designed to lower inequality between the rich and the […]
Topics: Child Welfare / Economic Inequality / Public PolicyFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Virginia Rutter / Sociology @ Framingham State University vrutter@gmail.com How Can Colleges Define Consent and Reduce Unwanted Sex? No easy answers here. CCF’s Online Symposium, Defining Consent, takes an unflinching look at the thorny question, what should count as consent to sexual activity – and what should not? In the process, […]
Defining Consent Symposium Keynote No Easy Answers: Can Colleges Define Consent and Reduce Unwanted Sex? The Defining Consent Online Symposium (.pdf) was convened for the Council on Contemporary Families by Stephanie Coontz and Paula England, who prepared this overview of the seven-part series. Their takeaway: Let’s reject simplistic answers and deal with the complicated realities […]
Topics: Gender & Sexuality / Sexual Abuse & MisconductThe Social Production of Campus Sexual Assault A briefing paper prepared by Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan, Columbia University, for the Council on Contemporary Families Defining Consent Online Symposium (.pdf). Public conversation about campus sexual assault tends to focus on two different issues. The first stems from the idea that campuses are a “hunting […]
A Restorative Justice Approach to Campus Sexual Misconduct A briefing paper prepared by David Karp, University of San Diego, for the Council on Contemporary Families Defining Consent Online Symposium (.pdf). The current #MeToo reckoning, following from the decade-long grassroots campus sexual assault movement, underscores the pervasiveness of sexual harm. As the contribution by Armstrong at al […]
“Consensualish” – Let’s talk about sex that people don’t want but “go along” with it A briefing paper prepared by Jessie V. Ford, Columbia University, for the Council on Contemporary Families Defining Consent Online Symposium (.pdf). In the spring of freshman year, shortly after leaving a party with a guy friend, Lydia and he had […]
Defining Sexual Consent on Campus: Media vs. Policies A briefing paper prepared by Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Sandra Levitsky, Kamaria Porter, Miriam Gleckman-Krut, Elizabeth Chase, all from University of Michigan, and Jessica Garrick, Southern Methodist University, for the Council on Contemporary Families Defining Consent Online Symposium (.pdf). In our sound bite media culture, the least typical […]
Sex and Consent on Campus: Definitions, Dilemmas, and New Directions A briefing paper prepared by Deborah L. Rhode, Stanford University, for the Council on Contemporary Families Defining Consent Online Symposium (.pdf). This symposium is a testament to our substantial but still partial progress around issues of sex and consent. When I went to college in […]
What’s New About Consent A briefing paper prepared by Rebecca L. Davis, University of Delaware, for the Council on Contemporary Families Defining Consent Online Symposium (.pdf). Writing in 1962, the editor and author Helen Gurley Brown controversially admonished her readers to think again about the aphorism that “nice girls don’t.” “Get it straight in your […]
CCF MEDIA BRIEF – OCTOBER 18, 2019 CCF MEMBERS IN THE NEWS: Understanding the Financial Risks with Owing Child Support We checked out these dating apps for Trump supporters. Here’s what we found NEW ON THE CCF BLOG: Raising a Village: Identifying Social Supports for All Kinds of Families Children Are Now Back at School, […]
CCF MEMBERS IN THE NEWS: Stay-at-Home Parents Work Hard. Should They Be Paid? There’s a case to be made for feminist marriage — and here’s why NEW ON THE CCF BLOG: Happy Moms, Happier Dads? Less ageism = less Alzheimer’s. It’s that clear. OTHER NEWS: Intensive Care: What Makes a ‘Good’ Parent? Yes, it […]
In a recent article for the New York Times, CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz discusses the potential implications of paying stay-at-home parents, a role most often undertaken by women. Coontz notes, “without strong incentives for dads to take on some of those duties, this would simultaneously cement women’s second-class place in the […]
Topics: Childcare (Providers & Systems) / Gender & Sexuality / Labor & Workforce / Work & FamilyCCF & MEMBERS IN THE NEWS: New CCF Symposium! Parents Can’t Go It Alone—They Never Have: What to Do for Parents to Help Our Next Generation Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life NEW ON THE CCF BLOG: On Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: Interracial Couples and Their Multiracial Children Will […]
