“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 […]
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Defining Sexual Consent on Campus: What’s in Media vs. What’s in the Policies || Elizabeth A. Armstrong et al.
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 || Deborah L. Rhode
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 || Rebecca L. Davis
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 […]
Experts: Rebecca Davis
CCF’s Media Roundup – October 18, 2019
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’s Media Roundup – October 4, 2019
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 […]
CCF’s Stephanie Coontz on Paying Stay-at-Home Parents in The New York Times
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 & FamilyExperts: Stephanie Coontz
CCF’s Media Roundup – September 20, 2019
CCF & 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 […]
CCF PRESS ADVISORY: Parents Can’t Go It Alone—They Never Have: What to Do for Parents to Help Our Next Generation
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 […]
Executive Summary: Children Are Now Back at School, Time to Focus on What Their Parents Need
*Executive summary prepared for CCF by Barbara J. Risman, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago. The birth rate is falling throughout much of the world. Yet many people still want to be parents, and they invest great time, energy and love in their children. The essays in this […]
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