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Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce

Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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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.

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    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.

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

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    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 […]

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

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    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?

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    EXPERTS

    Constance Ahrons

    Professor Emerita, University of Southern California

    Anne Bernstein

    Professor, The Wright Institute

    Dawn O. Braithwaite

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

    Deborah Carr

    Professor of Sociology, Boston University

    Andrew Cherlin

    Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Johns Hopkins University

    Marilyn Coleman

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

    Joshua Coleman

    Psychologist

    Carolyn Cowan

    Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley

    Philip Cowan

    Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

    Paula England

    Silver Professor of Sociology, New York University

    Frank Furstenberg

    Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

    Connie Gager

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

    Susan Gamache

    Psychologist & Marriage and Family Therapist

    Lawrence Ganong

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

    Jacqueline Hudak

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

    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

    Pamela J. Smock

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

    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

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