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Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage

Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage

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  • CCF’S Stephanie Coontz Interviewed by Legacy Washington

    Posted on July 31, 2020 in Members In The News
    Experts: Stephanie Coontz

    “Legacy Washington recently recorded an interview with author/historian Stephanie Coontz. Watch Legacy Washington historian Bob Young interview Coontz, an expert on family and marriage whose writing influenced the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Coontz has recently appeared in The New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine, and gave this year’s commencement speech […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Children / Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Feminism & Families / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family
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    New MAST Center Brief on Trends in Relationship Formation and Stability

    Posted on June 2, 2020 in Members In The News
    Experts: Karen Guzzo

    The Marriage Strengthening Research & Dissemination Center (MAST) recently released a new research brief, “Trends in Relationship Formation and Stability in the United States: Dating, Cohabitation, Marriage, and Divorce.” Co-authored by CCF expert Dr. Karen Benjamin Guzzo, the brief is the first in a series aiming to provide an overview of the current state of […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Marriage & Divorce / Singles & Dating
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    Men and Women Agree: During the COVID-19 Pandemic Men Are Doing More at Home

    Posted on May 20, 2020 in Brief Reports, CCF News
    Experts: Daniel Carlson / Joanna Pepin / Richard Petts

    Men and Women Agree: During the COVID-19 Pandemic Men Are Doing More at Home. They Differ Over How Much, but in Most Households the Division of Housework and Childcare Has Become More Equal A briefing paper prepared by Daniel L. Carlson (University of Utah), Richard J. Petts (Ball State University), and Joanna R. Pepin (University […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family
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    Challenges Facing Cohabiting Couples Differ from those of Married Couples in this Crisis

    Posted on May 4, 2020 in Brief Reports, CCF News
    Experts: Amanda Miller / Sharon Sassler

    Challenges Facing Cohabiting Couples Differ from those of Married Couples in this Crisis A briefing paper prepared by Amanda Miller, University of Indianapolis, and Sharon Sassler, Cornell University, for the Council on Contemporary Families. Much has been written about the challenges couples face as they adjust to “shelter in place” policies triggered by the coronavirus. […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Division of Labor in Families / Domestic Violence & Child Abuse / Economic Inequality / Marriage & Divorce / Public Policy / Trauma and Disaster
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    CCF’s Kristi Williams on WHYY Philadelphia

    Posted on February 25, 2020 in Members In The News
    Experts: Kristi Williams

    Listen here to see what CCF President of the Board Kristi Williams had to say about romantic love and the modern American marriage on WHYY Philadelphia’s “Solitude and the creative life”. Link: https://whyy.org/episodes/solitude-and-the-creative-life/

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Singles & Dating
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    CCF’s Stephanie Coontz for The New York Times: What Can Different-Sex Couples Learn From Same-Sex Couples?

    Posted on February 18, 2020 in CCF News, Members In The News
    Experts: Amanda Miller / Daniel Carlson / Debra Umberson / Joanna Pepin / Kristi Williams / Sharon Sassler / Stephanie Coontz / Virginia Rutter

    Five years after marriage equality, CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz asks: What can different-sex couples learn from same-sex couples? Featuring research by CCF experts Joanna Pepin, Dan Carlson, Virginia Rutter, Amanda Miller, Deb Umberson, Kristi Williams, Sharon Sassler and many more, Coontz highlights the role of gender expectations in shaping marital dynamics […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / LGBTQ Partnering & Families / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood
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    National Spouses Day Is This Sunday…. Feeling Any Pressure?

    Posted on January 23, 2020 in Fact Sheets
    Experts: Daniel Carlson / Stephanie Coontz

    National Spouses Day Is This Sunday…. Feeling Any Pressure? A Fact Sheet on Prospects for Marriage in Contemporary America Prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Daniel L. Carlson, University of Utah, and Stephanie Coontz, The Evergreen State College — January 26 is National Spouses Day, and Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Singles & Dating
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    Household Instability and Complexity among Undocumented Immigrants

    Posted on February 7, 2019 in Fact Sheets


    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 […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Immigrant, Mixed Status & Transnational Families / Latino Families
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    CCF Experts Weigh in on the “Sex Recession”

    Posted on January 23, 2019 in Members In The News
    Experts: Daniel Carlson / Stephanie Coontz

    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 […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life
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    Same-Sex Couples Devote More Attention to End-of-Life Plans than Heterosexual Couples

    Posted on June 19, 2018 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Debra Umberson

    A Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series   Mieke Beth Thomeer, Rachel Donnelly, Corinne Reczek, and Debra Umberson   Introduction End-of-life planning enhances the quality of later-life caregiving, health, and death. Ideally, informal planning—conversation with loved ones about future care and end-of-life preferences—and formal planning—wills, […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Aging / Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Gender & Sexuality / LGBTQ Partnering & Families
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    Associate Professor of Sociology, Tulane University

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    Associate Professor of Communication, College of Saint Mary

    Dawn O. Braithwaite

    Willa Cather Professor & Chair of Communication Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

    Kelly Campbell

    Professor of Psychology, California State University, San Bernardino

    Daniel Carlson

    Assistant Professor of Family, Health, and Policy in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah

    Deborah Carr

    Professor of Sociology, Boston University

    Andrew Cherlin

    Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Johns Hopkins University

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    Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley

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    Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin

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    Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research

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    Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

    Connie Gager

    Associate Professor, Department of Family Science & Human Development, Montclair State University

    Katherine Gallagher Robbins

    Director of Family Policy, Center for American Progress

    Kathleen Gerson

    Collegiate Professor of Sociology, New York University

    Karen Guzzo

    Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Center for Family & Demographic Research, Bowling Green State University

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    Clinical Director, Perelman School of Medicine, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania

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    Robert Kent Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law

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    Professor of Sociology, Stanford University

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    Professor, Cornell University

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    Professor, Department of Sociology & Population Studies Center, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

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    Director of Sedona Counselling Centre of Montreal, Psychotherapist, Author, Divorce Recovery Expert

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    Assistant Professor of Sociology, Missouri State University

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    Professor, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University

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    Psychologist

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