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CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Fifty Years of Religious Change: 1964-2014

Posted on February 4, 2014 in Brief Reports

In 1964 the provisions outlawing discrimination on the basis of religion were less controversial than those against discrimination on the basis of race and sex, even though blatant bigotry and outright violence against Catholics and Jews had been pervasive in American history right up through World War II. Prejudices had begun to ease by the early 1960s, but the Civil Rights Act remains an important safeguard for religious (and non-religious) minorities, according to Jerry Z. Park, Joshua Tom and Brita Andercheck, of Baylor University.

Red states, blue states, and divorce: Understanding the impact of conservative protestantism on regional variation in divorce rates

Posted on January 16, 2014 in Press Releases

Experts: Jennifer Glass

Why are divorce rates higher in religiously conservative “red” states and lower in less religiously conservative “blue” states? After all, most conservatives frown upon divorce, and religious commitment is believed to strengthen marriage, not erode it. Even so, religiously conservative states Alabama and Arkansas have the second and third highest divorce rates in the U.S., at 13 per 1000 people per year while New Jersey and Massachusetts, more liberal states, are two of the lowest at 6 and 7 per 1000 people per year.

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

Family structure, race, education and economic inequality

Posted on September 11, 2013 in Members In The News

CFF’s board members, Stephanie Coontz and Phil Cohen discuss the relationship between family structure, race, education and economic inequality in a Washington post article.

Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Work & Family

Women’s Education and their Likelihood of Marriage: A Historic Reversal

Posted on April 11, 2012 in Brief Reports

Experts: Paula England

By Paula England Professor of Sociology New York University Email: pengland@nyu.edu Phone 650-815-9308 Jonathan Bearak Ph.D. Candidate New York University Email: jonathan.bearak@nyu.edu Historically, women who graduated from college were far more likely than any other group of women — whether high school dropouts, high school graduates, or women with some college – to remain […]

Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life

Women’s Education and Their Likelihood of Marriage: A Historical Reversal

Posted on April 11, 2012 in Press Releases

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

For most of the 20th century, women who completed higher education were far less likely to be married than their less-educated counterparts. Then in 2010, the Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) reported new research showing that although college-educated women were still more likely to never marry at all than women with lower educational levels, they were so much less likely to divorce that by age 40, a higher proportion of college-educated women were married than any other group.

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

Is That a Fact? Three Brief Reports on the Credibility of Facts

Posted on August 15, 2009 in Brief Reports

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

Americans are bombarded by a constant stream of competing factoids and causal claims about families. Politicians, advocacy groups, pundits, and instant internet “experts” claim that social science “proves” this or that is the impact of divorce, “surveys show” what people think about marriage, or “the facts are clear” about the benefits of one family form or another. Are some facts more trustworthy than others, and if so, how can we tell the trustworthy from the untrustworthy? What is the difference between a cause, a correlation and a coincidence?

Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Health & Illness

Are Individuals Who Marry at an Older Age Too Set in Their Ways to Make Their Marriages Work?

Posted on January 29, 2009 in Brief Reports

Research on marriage trends suggests a U- shaped pattern of marital stability: marriages contracted in the early to mid twenties had lower divorce rates than those taking place before or after those ages. Do the patterns of the 1960s hold today? If they do, the present trend towards increasingly older ages at entry into marriage would be expected to be accompanied by higher levels of marital instability. This study examines this question, with particular focus on the case of women.

Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce

How Should We Think About the Taxpayer Consequences of Divorce?

Posted on April 15, 2008 in Brief Reports

Experts: Betsey Stevenson / Justin Wolfers

A new report, “The Taxpayer Costs of Divorce and Unwed Childbearing: First-Ever Estimates for the Nation and all 50 States”, raises the question of how much divorce costs taxpayers. This is an intriguing question, but unfortunately this report falls short on providing the answer. In the worst traditions of “advocacy science” the authors pick […]

Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Economic Inequality / Fertility,Reproduction & Sexual Health / Gender & Sexuality / Marriage & Divorce / TANF & Public Assistance

Understanding Low-Income Unmarried Couples with Children

Posted on October 20, 2007 in Brief Reports

Experts: Paula England

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 Parenting

The Impact of Divorce on Children’s Behavior Problems

Posted on July 21, 2007 in Brief Reports

This paper summarizes the argument and findings of a longer and more technical paper that won the 2007 Graduate Student Paper Award in Social Demography from the Section on Population of the American Sociological Association. Many research studies have shown that, on average, children of divorce have more behavior problems than children growing up in […]

Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce

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