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Cohabitating Couples With Lower Education Levels Marry Less. Is This Because They Do Not Want To?

Posted on May 15, 2018 in Brief Reports

A Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Kelly Raley Introduction Today, nearly two-thirds of first marriages are preceded by cohabitation, but even as living together has increasingly become part of the marriage process, fewer cohabitating couples get married and an increasing proportion break up within […]

Josh Coleman and Barbara Risman weigh-in on the nation’s obsession with other peoples’ romances

Posted on January 28, 2016 in CCF News, Members In The News

Experts: Barbara Risman / Joshua Coleman

In his New York Times opinion piece, Americans Put Too Much Weight in Romantic Love, CCF Board member Josh Colemen comments on the nation’s obsession with romantic relationships – reflecting on examples from the Clinton presidency and referencing fellow CCF-er Barbara Risman along the way.

Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Gender & Sexuality

Host of CCF members dissect divorce in Hopes&Fears

Posted on November 13, 2015 in CCF News, Members In The News

Experts: Arielle Kuperberg / Constance Ahrons / Jennifer Glass / Stephanie Coontz

CCF Director Jennifer Glass and Board member Stephanie Coontz join CCF members Ariel Kuperberg and Constance Ahrons in commenting on divorce for Hopes & Fears’s Is Divorce Really That Bad? .

Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce

What Happens When Couples Marry after the First Baby?

Posted on September 16, 2015 in Brief Reports, CCF News

Experts: Kelly Musick

What 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

The Tricky Business of Sorting Out Sexual Assault: An Introduction to The CCF Symposium On Intimate Partner Violence

Posted on April 20, 2015 in Brief Reports, Online Symposia, Publications

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

THE TRICKY BUSINESS OF SORTING OUT SEXUAL ASSAULT: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CCF SYMPOSIUM ON INTIMATE VIOLENCE by Stephanie Coontz , Director of Research and Public Education, Council on Contemporary Families, and Faculty Member in History, The Evergreen State College; coontzs@msn.com April 20, 2015 Violent crime has been falling Many people do not realize that violent […]

Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Gender & Sexuality / Sexual Abuse & Misconduct

Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage Matter to Americans (and Data Matters, Too)

Posted on December 5, 2014 in CCF News

American families are diversifying in ways that are more complicated than ever, creating distinct patterns in different parts of the country and subgroups of the population. That’s why policy-makers and community leaders need detailed, locally-specific census data about family formation, marriage trends, divorce, and widowhood. This information is essential in order to accurately assess everything from population growth patterns to the special educational and social needs of different neighborhoods. Yet the Census Bureau has announced plans to cut from the American Community Survey several questions that provide such crucial information to researchers, planners, journalists, and the general public.

Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce

Overview: Family Trends You Might Not Have Expected

Posted on October 8, 2014 in Online Symposia, Press Releases, Publications

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

October 12 marks the 4th anniversary the United States becoming a “no-fault nation.” On that date in 2010, New York, the last holdout, finally joined the 49 other states in eliminating the need for divorcing couples to state that the dissolution of their marriage was the “fault” of one or the other. Today, every state offers the possibility of a no-fault divorce.

Three years later, the co-chair of The Coalition for Divorce Reform claims that “no-fault divorce has been a disaster,” leading to record numbers of divorces and plummeting rates of marriage.
Figuring out divorce and marriage trends is further complicated by the recent foreclosure crisis and the ensuing deep recession. The Council on Contemporary Families asked five researchers to explore recent trends in divorce and marriage for the CCF Symposium on New Inequalities.

Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce

A Class Act? Stability and Instability in Children’s Lives

Posted on October 8, 2014 in Online Symposia, Publications

Contrary to popular opinion, growing instability in American families, reflected not just in divorce rates but falling rates of marriage and high rates of unwed motherhood, is not caused by people abandoning traditional concerns for children’s well-being. It is a class issue caused by the growing gap between the job options, resources, economic stability, and personal safety nets available to college-educated Americans and less-educated workers. The authors explain.

Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Economic Inequality

Gray Divorce: A Growing Risk Regardless of Class or Education

Posted on October 8, 2014 in Online Symposia, Publications

In contrast to the seeming stabilization of divorce rates for the general population over the past two decades, the gray divorce rate has doubled: Married individuals aged 50 and older, including the college-educated, are twice as likely to experience a divorce today as they were in 1990. For married individuals aged 65 and older, the risk of divorce has more than doubled since 1990. Researchers explain why.

Topics of Expertise: Aging / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce

Divorce and the Recession

Posted on October 8, 2014 in Online Symposia, Publications

It is quite likely that the economic crisis both caused some divorces and prevented some divorces. However, the balance of the evidence suggests it prevented more than it caused. I would not read this as good news for marriage and families, however, because there may be negative consequences for people who want to part but cannot divorce because of economic constraints. The enforced wait could simply prolong or exacerbate marital stress and family conflict, rather than saving or restoring a happy marriage.

Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce

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EXPERTS

Constance Ahrons

Professor Emerita, University of Southern California

Etiony Aldarondo

Executive Director, The Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment, University of Miami

Anne Bernstein

Professor, The Wright Institute

Dawn O. Braithwaite

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

Kelly Campbell

Professor of Psychology, California State University, San Bernardino

Deborah Carr

Professor of Sociology, Boston University

Andrew Cherlin

Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Johns Hopkins University

Joshua Coleman

Psychologist

Marilyn Coleman

Curators' Professor Emerita of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Missouri

Carolyn Cowan

Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley

Philip Cowan

Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

Robert Emery

Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia

Paula England

Professor of Sociology, New York University

Frank Furstenberg

Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

Susan Gamache

Psychologist & Marriage and Family Therapist

Lawrence Ganong

PhD Professor and Co-Chair of the College of Environmental Science, University of Missouri

Pilar Gonalons-Pons

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Natalie Hengstebeck

Postdoctoral Fellow, Scholars Strategy Network, Duke University

Clare Huntington

Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Fordham Law School

Arielle Kuperberg

Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Michael Rosenfeld

Professor of Sociology, Stanford University

Luke Russell

Assistant Professor, Illinois State University

Virginia Rutter

Professor of Sociology, Framingham State University

Liana Sayer

Professor of Sociology with the Maryland Population Research Center and Director of the Maryland Time Use Lab

Judith Siegel

Professor, Silver School of Social Work, New York University

Pamela J. Smock

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

Vikki Stark

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

Betsey Stevenson

Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan

Susan Stewart

Professor of Sociology, Iowa State University

David Trimble

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

Nicholas Wolfinger

Professor of Family & Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Utah

Robert Wright

CEO, Wright Foundation