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  • CCF ADVISORY: On August 26, 2017, Women’s Equality Day Turns 44

    Posted on August 25, 2017 in Press Releases
    Experts: Stephanie Coontz / Virginia Rutter

    ADVISORY: Women’s Equality Day Turns 44. Gains, stalls, and setbacks   August 25, 2017, Austin, TX: Since 1973, August 26th has been designated as Women’s Equality Day, offering a chance to assess the current status of gender equity. In a fact sheet compiled for the Council on Contemporary Families, Nika Fate-Dixon and Stephanie Coontz (The […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Economic Inequality / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Work & Family
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    Is TANF Working for Struggling Millennial Parents?

    Posted on August 21, 2016 in Online Symposia


     A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Shawn Fremstad, JD, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. The views expressed are his own and do not necessarily represent the views of either organization. August 22, 2016   Millennial […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / TANF & Public Assistance
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    It’s Women’s History Month: Why is pay for caregiving work so low relative to other jobs with similarly low requirements for formal education?

    Posted on March 14, 2016 in Brief Reports, CCF News, Publications
    Experts: Paula England

      It’s Women’s History Month: Why is pay for caregiving work so low relative to other jobs with similarly low requirements for formal education?  A Briefing Paper Prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Paula England, Ph.D, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies at New York University.    March 15, 2016 Two […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality
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    Presidential Candidate Fact Checked by CCF Experts: Stephanie Coontz, Nancy Folbre, and Kristi Williams

    Posted on January 22, 2016 in CCF News, Members In The News
    Experts: Kristi Williams / Stephanie Coontz

      RH Fact Check cited CCF members Stephanie Coontz, Nancy Folbre, and Kristi Williams in its review of Jeb Bush’s comments on poverty and marriage, Hard Work and Marriage Aren’t the Magic Cure-Alls for Poverty Jeb Bush Is Hoping For.

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Work & Family
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    Health Care Is a Family Stressor—So There’s Good News

    Posted on October 29, 2015 in Brief Reports


    September 16, 2015; The U.S. Census Bureau’s report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage, released today, reflects the continued uncertainty for U.S. families that has persisted since the Great Recession. Year-to-year changes in most trends were modest or not statistically significant—except in the case of health insurance coverage—but the longer-term trends are important. Specifically: […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Health Care
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    Moynihan’s Half Century: Have We Gone to Hell in a Hand Basket?

    Posted on March 5, 2015 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Jeffrey Hayes

    This briefing paper was prepared as part of an online symposium Moynihan+50: Family Structure Still not the Problem for the Council on Contemporary Families and published jointly by CCF and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). By Philip N. Cohen, Heidi Hartmann, Jeff Hayes and Chandra Childers Executive Summary In The Negro Family: The […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Race, Ethnicity & Culture
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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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    Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Economic Inequality
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    Family Diversity is the New Normal for America’s Children

    Posted on September 4, 2014 in Brief Reports


    People often think of social change in the lives of American children since the 1950s as a movement in one direction – from children being raised in married, male-breadwinner families to a new norm of children being raised by working mothers, many of them unmarried. Instead, we can better understand this transformation as an explosion of diversity, a fanning out from a compact center along many different pathways.

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / TANF & Public Assistance
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    CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Racial-Ethnic Realities since the Civil Rights Act

    Posted on February 5, 2014 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Stephanie Coontz

    Overview: Changing Racial-Ethnic Realities since the Civil Rights Act Remarks by: Stephanie Coontz Today the Council on Contemporary Families releases the second set of papers in a three part symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. Yesterday researchers described the rearrangement of America’s religious landscape over the past half century. Today’s four […]

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    Topics of Expertise: African American Families / Economic Inequality / Immigrant, Mixed Status & Transnational Families / Latino Families / Race, Ethnicity & Culture
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    CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Are African Americans Living the Dream 50 Years After Passage of the Civil Rights Act?

    Posted on February 5, 2014 in Brief Reports


    By Velma McBride Murry and Na Liu Vanderbilt University In 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington, the momentous demonstration that helped spur passage of the Civil Rights Act the following year. He described African Americans as living “on a lonely island […]

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    Topics of Expertise: African American Families / Economic Inequality / Race, Ethnicity & Culture
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    EXPERTS

    M. V. Lee Badgett

    Professor of Economics, School of Public Policy UMass Amherst; Williams Institute UCLA

    Jessica Calarco

    Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University

    Kelly Campbell

    Professor of Psychology, California State University, San Bernardino

    Robert Crosnoe

    Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

    Sarah Damaske

    Associate Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University

    Lori Delale-O’Connor

    Assistant Professor of Education, University of Pittsburgh Center for Urban Education

    Katherine Gallagher Robbins

    Director of Family Policy, Center for American Progress

    Kathleen Gerson

    Collegiate Professor of Sociology, New York University

    Jennifer Glass

    Professor of Sociology , University of Texas, Austin

    Pilar Gonalons-Pons

    Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

    Rachel Gordon

    Professor of Sociology & Faculty Fellow of the Honors College, University of Illinois at Chicago

    Janet C. Gornick

    Director, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, Graduate Center CUNY

    Jeffrey Hayes

    Program Director, Institute for Women's Policy Research

    Natalie Hengstebeck

    Postdoctoral Fellow, Scholars Strategy Network, Duke University

    Clare Huntington

    Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Fordham Law School

    Roberta Iversen

    Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Social Policy program, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice

    Arielle Kuperberg

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

    Tama Leventhal

    Associate Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University

    Ricci Levy

    President and CEO, Woodhull Freedom Foundation

    Joan Maya Mazelis

    Associate Professor, Rutgers University-Camden

    Kelly Musick

    Professor and Interim Department Chair of Policy Analysis and Management, Director of the Cornell Population Center, Cornell University

    Laura Napolitano

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University - Camden

    Joanna Pepin

    NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin

    Maureen Perry-Jenkins

    Professor of Psychology & Director of Center for Research on Families, University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Allison Pugh

    Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia

    Jennifer Randles

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University-Fresno

    Lee Roper-Batker

    President and CEO, Community Foundations

    Pamela J. Smock

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

    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

    Reeve Vanneman

    Professor, University of Maryland

    Justin Wolfers

    Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan

    Nicholas Wolfinger

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

    Colleen Wynn

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Indianapolis

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