New research by CCF members Daniel Carlson and David Cotter is featured in the Deseret News. Carlson and Cotter presented two new reports to CCF about gender differences in household work and attitudes about gender equality.
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Feminism & Families / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family LifeIn an opinion piece for the New York Times, CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz writes about the importance of cultivating “the skills of successful singlehood.” These skills are just as important for people who are married as for people who will never marry. According to Coontz, “Marriage can provide a bounty of […]
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage
CCF President Barbara Risman weighs in on recent findings that millennials want more traditional gender roles at home in a recent article in the GoodCall. Despite these findings, Risman says that millennials are not more conservative than previous generations when it comes to roles in a family. “There are no traditionalists, as defined as people […]
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Feminism & Families
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.
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life
In a Washington Post article, “Young people now more likely to live with parents than partners“, CCF Board Member and Director of Research Stephanie Coontz comments on the positive aspects of the growing trend of young adults living with their parents.
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage
Check out CCF boardmember Pepper Schwartz’s comments on member Kelly Musick’s report on pre-marital parenting.
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Transition - Couples to ParentingFor Immediate Release Contact: Virginia Rutter / Framingham State University Sociology vrutter@gmail.com / 206 375 4139 CCF PRESS ADVISORY: Attention Cohabitors: Having a baby before you marry no longer raises your risk of divorce September 16, Austin, TX— Today the majority of weddings take place between couples who already live together. And recent research shows […]
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & MarriageWhat Happens When Couples Marry after the First Baby? A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Kelly Musick, Cornell University and Katherine Michelmore, University of Michigan September 16, 2015 One of the consistent findings of sociological research in recent decades has been that couples who had a child before getting […]
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce
First comes love, then comes…housework? A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families Online Symposium on Housework, Gender, and Parenthood by Arielle Kuperberg, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. May 7, 2015 Does marriage lead women to take on a larger share of housework? In the 1950s and 1960s, […]
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families
Experts recommend we delay, protect, and look for more change in the future.
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & MarriageAssistant Professor at Adrian College
Willa Cather Professor & Department Chair of the Communication Studies Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Assistant Professor of Family, Health, and Policy in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah
Associate Research Scientist at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
Professor of Sociology and Research Associate in the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
Director of Family Policy Center for American Progress
Associate Professor at Duke University
Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Center for Family & Demographic Research, Bowling Green State University
Director of Clinical Training, Marriage and Family Therapy
Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts & ISPCAN
Professor of Law & Paul M. Siskind Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law
Professor of Communication & Director of Graduate Studies, Baylor University
Professor of Sociology with the Maryland Population Research Center and Director of the Maryland Time Use Lab
Professor of Sociology & Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Associate Professor of Sociology, State University of New York-Institute of Technology
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University Medical School; Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Boston Medical Center; American Family Therapy Academy; Boston Center for Culturally Affirming Practices
Deputy Program Area Director at Child Trends
Professor of Family & Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Utah
