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 & MarriageBy Arielle Kuperberg The University of North Carolina at Greensboro atkuperb@uncg.edu In the last 50 years, the percentage of men and women who cohabit before marriage – “living in sin” as it was still called in the 1960s – has increased by almost 900 percent. Today 70 percent of women aged 30 to 34 have […]
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & MarriageFor more than 20 years, researchers have reported that premarital cohabitation is associated with an elevated risk of divorce. Yet these findings have failed to deter young people from “shacking up.” Senior CCF Scholar Arielle Kuperberg’s research finds that previous studies have over-stated the divorce risk from premarital cohabitation by ignoring how old the individuals are when they move in together.
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage
Why do so many low-income couples postpone marriage but fail to postpone childbearing? Which couples eventually do marry? Why do the rest of the couples break up? How would knowing the answers to these questions affect public policy? A new briefing report by the Council on Contemporary Families offers an advance look at the […]
Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Transition - Couples to ParentingAssistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Assistant 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
Assistant 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
Associate Professor and 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
