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Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities)

Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities)

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  • CCF’s Joshua Coleman on the Complicated Realities of Parental Estrangement

    Posted on December 22, 2020 in CCF News, Members In The News
    Experts: Joshua Coleman

    Read his thoughts in his new essay for Aeon, “Modern culture blames parents for forces beyond their control“

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    Topics of Expertise: Children / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Family Counseling, Therapy & Parenting Intervention / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood
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    CCF Board Member Barbara Risman On How To Help Working Parents While Also Equalizing Children’s Educational Access

    Posted on August 12, 2020 in CCF News, Members In The News
    Experts: Barbara Risman

    Read her op-ed in the Chicago Tribune: “A new Works Progress Administration could create ‘learning pods’ for all schoolchildren.“

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    Topics of Expertise: Childcare (Providers & Systems) / Economic Inequality / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood
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    “The Tool We Have”: Why Child Protective Services Investigates So Many Families and How Even Good Intentions Backfire

    Posted on August 11, 2020 in Brief Reports


    “The Tool We Have”: Why Child Protective Services Investigates So Many Families and How Even Good Intentions Backfire A briefing paper prepared by Kelley Fong (Georgia Institute of Technology) for the Council on Contemporary Families. August 11, 2020 In recent months, conversations around the role of the police have drawn mainstream attention to what contemporary […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Childcare (Providers & Systems) / Children / Domestic Violence & Child Abuse / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities)
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    Before and during COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality

    Posted on August 3, 2020 in Brief Reports, CCF News
    Experts: Kelly Musick

    Before and During COVID-19: Telecommuting, Work-Family Conflict, and Gender Equality A briefing paper prepared by Thomas Lyttelton (Yale Sociology), Emma Zang (Yale Sociology), and Kelly Musick (Cornell Policy Analysis and Management) for the Council on Contemporary Families. August 4, 2020 The puzzle. The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in an unprecedented shift to remote work, with […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Children / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family
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    CCF’S Stephanie Coontz Interviewed by Legacy Washington

    Posted on July 31, 2020 in Members In The News
    Experts: Stephanie Coontz

    “Legacy Washington recently recorded an interview with author/historian Stephanie Coontz. Watch Legacy Washington historian Bob Young interview Coontz, an expert on family and marriage whose writing influenced the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Coontz has recently appeared in The New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine, and gave this year’s commencement speech […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Children / Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Feminism & Families / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family
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    CCF’s Executive Director Jennifer Glass on the Struggle for Child Care in a Pandemic

    Posted on July 10, 2020 in CCF News, Members In The News
    Experts: Jennifer Glass

    Parents often rely on their networks for child care, but how has that changed since COVID-19? CCF’s Executive Director Jennifer Glass has some thoughts in The Christian Science Monitor’s “‘I can’t keep this up much longer’: Parents struggle with pandemic strain.” Link: https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/2020/0709/I-can-t-keep-this-up-much-longer-Parents-struggle-with-pandemic-strain

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    Topics of Expertise: Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family
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    CCF Experts Featured in The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Deseret News

    Posted on July 9, 2020 in CCF News, Members In The News
    Experts: Daniel Carlson / Joanna Pepin / Richard Petts

    CCF experts Dan Carlson, Richard Petts, and Joanna Pepin discuss the findings of their latest brief report on gendered division of labor during the covid-19 pandemic with Deseret News’ Lois M. Collins. Read the article, “More men are doing housework during the pandemic, research finds,” here. UPDATE: read more coverage of CCF’s latest brief report in […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Trauma and Disaster / Work & Family
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    CCF’s Stephanie Coontz featured in Rolling Stone

    Posted on July 6, 2020 in Members In The News
    Experts: Stephanie Coontz

    Read her thoughts on the challenges mothers are facing in “Coronavirus Is Killing the Working Mother”

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    Topics of Expertise: Children / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood
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    How Dads Make a Difference for Their Children

    Posted on June 17, 2020 in Fact Sheets
    Experts: Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan

    Fast Facts for Father’s Day (June 21, 2020): A fact sheet prepared by Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, Ohio State University and Kari Adamsons, University of Connecticut for the Council on Contemporary Families How Dads Make a Difference for Their Children  Mentally…Dads foster their children’s development by challenging them both cognitively and physically. Dads promote children’s communication skills […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Childcare (Providers & Systems) / Children / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood
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    Men and Women Agree: During the COVID-19 Pandemic Men Are Doing More at Home

    Posted on May 20, 2020 in Brief Reports, CCF News
    Experts: Daniel Carlson / Joanna Pepin / Richard Petts

    Men and Women Agree: During the COVID-19 Pandemic Men Are Doing More at Home. They Differ Over How Much, but in Most Households the Division of Housework and Childcare Has Become More Equal A briefing paper prepared by Daniel L. Carlson (University of Utah), Richard J. Petts (Ball State University), and Joanna R. Pepin (University […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / Work & Family
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