CCF Briefing Can We Live Longer but Stay Younger? The Trouble With Fathering 114 Kids Capital punishment and death row inmates: A research roundup Housing practices and black wealth The Rise of the Haphazard Self The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men Perry Preschool: Intergenerational Effects Toolkit It’s time to end the callous policy of inmate […]
CCF Briefing Why Can’t Men Say ‘I Love You’ to Each Other? Anita Hill: Let’s Talk About How to End Sexual Violence What Do New State Abortion Laws Really Mean for Women? How Many School Shootings Have There Been in 2019? Measles Outbreak: Fears Over New Clusters of Unvaccinated Children in New York Many Hospitals […]
For Mother’s Day, the Population Reference Bureau released a report on time use patterns of married, cohabiting and single mothers based on research by CCF Member Joanna Pepin. This researched was published last year in Demography and finds that married and cohabiting mothers do more housework than single moms. “Being in a partnership appears to […]
CCF Briefing The $100 trillion question: What to do about wealth? Weeding Out Dubious Marijuana Science Standing Against Psychiatry’s Crazes Netflix and Suicide: The Disturbing Example of “13 Reasons Why” Dementia-Friendly Cities Prepare for an Aging Populace The big business of loneliness The End of the Line The future of housing looks nothing like today’s […]
CCF Briefing The Myth of Testosterone The Thin Line Between Surgery and Mutilation By AFSHAN JAFAR The American Family Makes This Country Great, and It’s in Danger By JANET MURGUÍA Caster Semenya, Feminist Icon? What ‘Good’ Dads Get Away With Half of People Miss Benefits of Statins When Anti-Immigrant Hatred Was Mainstream How Larry Nassar […]
CCF Briefing Supporters of abortion rights should be energized, not demoralized Big Labor’s Big Shrink Is the Immediate Playback of Events Changing Children’s Memories? In Month After ‘13 Reasons Why’ Debut on Netflix, Study Finds Teen Suicide Grew ‘Late Bloomers’ Review: Please Don’t Rush Me ‘Late Bloomers’ Review: Please Don’t Rush Me It’s time to […]
Council on Contemporary Families 2020 Media Awards for Outstanding Coverage of Family Issues The Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) announces the opening of nominations for its Fourteenth Annual Media Awards competition. We honor outstanding journalism that contributes to the public understanding of contemporary family issues, in particular the story behind the story: how diverse families are coping with […]
CCF Briefing America’s majority minority future The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black. The Home Buyers Are Mostly White. Immigrants for the Heartland How the Upper Middle Class Is Really Doing Alabama’s Gruesome Prisons: Report Finds Rape and Murder at All Hours New statewide study seeks to better understand women’s decisions and experiences with abortion Women Wanted: […]
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CCF Briefing Nearly 8,000 Boy Scout Leaders Have Been Accused of Sexual Abuse Since 1944, Researcher Found Parenting Like an Economist Is a Lot Less Stressful Parenting Looks Nothing Like What the Experts Say ‘Intensive’ Parenting Is Now the Norm in America There Used to Be Consensus on How to Raise Kids How to Win […]
CCF Briefing The Data All Guilt-Ridden Parents Need America’s Invisible Pot Addicts The Military Wants Better Tests for PTSD. Speech Analysis Could Be the Answer. More Benches, Special Goggles: Taking Steps to Assist Older Travelers Will the Supreme Court Protect Gay and Transgender Workers? The Search for a Biomarker for Early Autism Diagnosis How Parents […]
CCF Briefing The Life and Death of a Wildly Popular Baby Sleeper Can London’s Knife-Crime Crisis Be Stopped? Want to succeed in college? Spend more time playing video games with friends. As Wages Rise, Black Workers See the Smallest Gains Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn’t […]
CCF Briefing One Teenager Killed Himself. Six More Followed. Murders by Intimate Partners Are on the Rise, Study Finds CBD Lures Stressed-Out Parents Looking to Unwind Native American Women Are Facing a Crisis How ‘Heartland Visas’ Could Reduce Geographic Inequality Children Are Swallowing Foreign Objects More Frequently, Study Finds Ohio’s Fetal Heartbeat Abortion Ban Is […]
Barbara Risman, President of CCF, receives the 2019 Distinguished Lectureship Award from the Southern Sociological Society! This award honors a record of excellence as a scholar and lecturer. It was presented at the 2019 annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society in Atlanta, GA.
Jennifer Glass, Executive Director of CCF, receives the 2019 Harriet B. Presser Award offered by the Population Association of America! This award honors a record of sustained research contributions to the study of gender and demography. It was presented at the 2019 annual meeting of the PAA in Austin, TX. https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/prc/news/article.php?id=13957
