Council on Contemporary Families
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • RSS
Yes, I want to support CCF's work
  • Home
  • About
    • About CCF
    • The Society Pages
    • Make a Gift
    • Become a Friend of CCF
    • CCF’s Student Internship Program
  • CCF News & Events
    • Biweekly Media Briefings
    • News & Upcoming Events
    • Members In The News
    • About the CCF Media Awards
  • Publications
    • By Topic
      • Aging
      • Economic Inequality
      • Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce
      • Family Counseling, Therapy & Parenting Intervention
      • Gender & Sexuality
      • Health & Illness
      • LGBTQ Partnering & Families
      • Parenthood
      • Public Policy
        • Aging (Public Policy)
        • Child Welfare
        • Health Care
        • Labor & Workforce
        • Marriage & Divorce
        • Reproductive Health
        • TANF & Public Assistance
      • Race, Ethnicity & Culture
        • African American Families
        • Asian American Families
        • Latino Families
      • Singles & Dating
      • Work & Family
    • By Publication Type
      • Brief Reports
      • Fact Sheets
      • Online Symposia
        • 2019 Defining Consent Symposium
        • 2019 Parents Can’t Go It Alone Symposium
        • 2018 Gender Matters Symposium
        • 2017 Gender and Millennials Symposium
        • 2016 Welfare Reform Symposium
        • 2015 Intimate Partner Violence Symposium
        • 2015 Housework, Gender, and Parenthood Symposium
        • 2014 New Inequalities Symposium
        • 2014 Gender Revolution Rebound Symposium
      • Press Releases
      • Unconventional Wisdom
      • Opinion Pieces
    • CCF Books
      • Families as They Really Are (2009)
      • Revised Edition Ensuring Inequality
  • Conferences
    • 2020 CCF Conference
      • 2020 Conference Registration
      • 2020 CCF Conference Program
      • 2020 Flash Session & Pamela Smock Travel Award
    • Previous Conference Archives
      • 2018 CCF Conference – Highlights, Pictures, and More!
      • 2016 CCF Conference – Recap!
      • 2014 CCF Conference – Highlights, Summary Talks, Pictures, and More!
  • Membership
    • New Membership
    • Membership Profile Update
  • Experts
    • Find an Expert
    • View by Topics
TOPICS

Health & Illness

Health & Illness

  • No categories
  • black_pregnant_woman

    Men and Depression, Joshua Coleman Comments for the WSJ

    Posted on September 20, 2016 in Members In The News
    Experts: Joshua Coleman

    CCF Board member, Joshua Coleman, was cited in an article for the Wall Street Journal exploring gender differences in the experience of depression: In Men, Depression is Different, by Elizabeth Bernstein.      

    Share
    Topics of Expertise: Family Counseling, Therapy & Parenting Intervention / Health & Illness
    counseling, depression, men, mental health Read More

    Kristi Williams Comments on CDC Report for Huffington Post

    Posted on January 6, 2016 in CCF News, Members In The News
    Experts: Kristi Williams

    CCF Board Secretary, Kristi Williams, provides the Huffington Post with her insight on a CDC study of the occurence of sleep deprivation among single parents in: Almost Half Of Single Moms Struggle With This Health Problem And we’re finally doing them the courtesy of studying it.  

    Share
    Topics of Expertise: Health & Illness / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood
    Read More

    CCF Civil Rights Symposium: Women’s Changing Social Status since the Civil Rights Act

    Posted on February 6, 2014 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Stephanie Coontz

    Today the Council on Contemporary Families releases the third set of papers in a three part symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. The first two sets of papers described changes in America’s religious and racial-ethnic landscape in the half century since it became illegal to discriminate on the basis of religion, skin color, national origin, race, ethnicity or gender.

    It’s appropriate that we turn last to how women have fared since passage of the Civil Rights Act, because the addition of the word “sex” was a last minute addition to the bill. Opponents hoped — and supporters feared — that threatening to make discrimination on the basis of sex illegal would kill the bill, and when it passed anyway, few policymakers took the sex provision seriously. Although the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission immediately moved to ban job ads that specified a particular race, it refused to do the same for the sex-segregated want ads that were the norm in 1964.

    Share
    Topics of Expertise: Division of Labor in Families / Feminism & Families / Fertility,Reproduction & Sexual Health / Gender & Sexuality / Health & Illness / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Labor & Workforce / Work & Family
    civil rights, feminism, women's rights Read More

    Trends in Global Gender Equity

    Posted on June 7, 2013 in Brief Reports


    By Stephanie Seguino Professor of Economics University of Vermont stephanie.seguino@uvm.edu; 802.656.0187 First the good news: Gender parity has already been reached in secondary educational enrollment rates in high-income countries and in Latin America and the Caribbean. From 1975 to 2010, the Arab region saw a remarkable rise in the ratio of female to male secondary […]

    Share
    Topics of Expertise: Health & Illness / Work & Family
    equal pay Read More

    Myths About Later Motherhood: Fact Sheet

    Posted on July 25, 2012 in Fact Sheets


      Today, almost 40 percent of all babies in the United States are born to women over 30, and almost 15 percent – 1 in 7 – are born to women 35 and over.  As the chart below of historical trends in women’s fertility rates by age demonstrates, birth rates to women aged 15-24 have […]

    Share
    Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Fertility,Reproduction & Sexual Health / Gender & Sexuality / Health & Illness / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life
    fact sheet, later motherhood, pregnancy Read More

    Keeping Your Family (and Yourself) Healthy During the Holidays

    Posted on November 28, 2011 in Fact Sheets
    Experts: Deborah Carr

    Keeping healthy during the holiday season isn’t something we need to do alone, however. Decades of research by social scientists show that good relationships keep us healthy. Spouses, partners, and friends can help us to eat and sleep well, motivate us to exercise, and provide emotional support during stressful times. Here are ten tips to keep yourself (and your families) healthy throughout the holiday season.

    Share
    Topics of Expertise: Health & Illness
    couples, family, health, holidaysf Read More

    The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Civil Rights Landmark for People with Disabilities, Including Down Syndrome

    Posted on July 26, 2011 in Brief Reports


    The Americans with Disabilities Act, passed July 26, 1990, is one of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation in American history. What the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did for people of color, the Americans with Disabilities Act did for people with disabilities — a population of between 36 and 54 million Americans, representing 12 to 19 percent of the U.S. population.

    Share
    Topics of Expertise: Health & Illness / Health Care
    Read More

    Celebrating Women’s Health Week: 30 Minutes a Day to Better Health

    Posted on May 8, 2011 in Fact Sheets
    Experts: Deborah Carr

    National Women’s Health Week (May 8-14, 2011) is a week-long observance spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health. The theme for 2011 is “It’s Your Time.” National Women’s Health Week empowers women to make their health a top priority, and encourages them to take steps to improve their […]

    Share
    Topics of Expertise: Health & Illness
    women's health week Read More

    Keeping Your Partner (and Yourself) Healthy During the Holidays

    Posted on December 19, 2009 in Fact Sheets


    By Deborah Carr, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology Rutgers University Kristen W. Springer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers University The holiday season is one of the most festive times of the year. But the joys of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year’s Eve have a dark side: the physical toll that comes from unhealthy […]

    Share
    Topics of Expertise: Family Counseling, Therapy & Parenting Intervention / Health & Illness
    couples, family, health, holidays, partnerc Read More

    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?

    Share
    Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Health & Illness
    fact a fact Read More
    123

    EXPERTS

    Chloe E. Bird

    Senior Sociologist, RAND Corporation; Professor of Sociology and Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School

    Daniel Carlson

    Assistant Professor of Family, Health, and Policy in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah

    Deborah Carr

    Professor of Sociology, Boston University

    Robert Crosnoe

    Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

    Lauren Jade Martin

    Associate Professor of Sociology, Penn State University

    Adina Nack

    Professor of Sociology, California Lutheran University

    Christina Paxman

    Assistant Professor of Communication and Department Coordinator, Minot State University

    Luke Russell

    Assistant Professor, Illinois State University

    Darby Saxbe

    Associate Professor, University of Southern California

    Kevin Shafer

    Associate Professor of Sociology, Brigham Young University & McMaster University

    Susan Short

    Professor of Sociology and Director of the Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University

    Debra Umberson

    Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts and Professor of Sociology, University of Texas

    Ellen Wartella

    Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication, Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Professor of Medical Social Sciences Director, Center on Media and Human Development School of Communication Chair, Department of Communication Studies

    Kristi Williams

    Professor, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University

    Sarah Wright

    Executive Director, Social Work in Progress

    The Council of Contemporary Families is housed at the University of Texas at Austin through the generous support from:

    Why should you support CCF?

    Loading Quotes...
    © 2014 Council on Contemporary Families - Web Design by HelloAri - Managed by CCF Admin Team