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New MAST Center Brief on Trends in Relationship Formation and Stability

Posted on June 2, 2020 in Members In The News

Experts: Karen Guzzo

The Marriage Strengthening Research & Dissemination Center (MAST) recently released a new research brief, “Trends in Relationship Formation and Stability in the United States: Dating, Cohabitation, Marriage, and Divorce.” Co-authored by CCF expert Dr. Karen Benjamin Guzzo, the brief is the first in a series aiming to provide an overview of the current state of […]

CCF Experts Featured in Boston Globe, Deseret News

Posted on May 26, 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 […]

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

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 […]

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

CCF’s Stephanie Coontz for The New York Times: What Can Different-Sex Couples Learn From Same-Sex Couples?

Posted on February 18, 2020 in CCF News, Members In The News

Experts: Amanda Miller / Daniel Carlson / Debra Umberson / Joanna Pepin / Kristi Williams / Sharon Sassler / Stephanie Coontz / Virginia Rutter

Five years after marriage equality, CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz asks: What can different-sex couples learn from same-sex couples? Featuring research by CCF experts Joanna Pepin, Dan Carlson, Virginia Rutter, Amanda Miller, Deb Umberson, Kristi Williams, Sharon Sassler and many more, Coontz highlights the role of gender expectations in shaping marital dynamics […]

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

National Spouses Day Is This Sunday…. Feeling Any Pressure?

Posted on January 23, 2020 in Fact Sheets

Experts: Daniel Carlson / Stephanie Coontz

National Spouses Day Is This Sunday…. Feeling Any Pressure? A Fact Sheet on Prospects for Marriage in Contemporary America Prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Daniel L. Carlson, University of Utah, and Stephanie Coontz, The Evergreen State College — January 26 is National Spouses Day, and Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. […]

Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Singles & Dating

Stephanie Coontz on History of Wedding Traditions in NBC News

Posted on July 15, 2019 in Members In The News

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

In her Op-Ed for NBC News, CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz writes about the origins of gendered wedding traditions and possible implications for marital satisfaction. Coontz writes, “couples looking for happiness in the years after their wedding day might consider updating old ceremonies, or crafting new ones, that reinforce their commitment to […]

Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life

CCF Experts Weigh in on the “Sex Recession”

Posted on January 23, 2019 in Members In The News

Experts: Daniel Carlson / Stephanie Coontz

JSTOR looks beyond the hype to examine what the “sex recession” is and whether we should be concerned about it. Several CCF experts weighed in on why the fear of a “sex recession” is misdirected. For example, Daniel Carlson explains how the amount of sex is not strongly linked to how satisfied you are with […]

Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life

Cohabitating Couples With Lower Education Levels Marry Less. Is This Because They Do Not Want To?

Posted on May 15, 2018 in Brief Reports

A Research Brief Prepared for the University of Texas at Austin Population Research Center Research Brief Series Kelly Raley Introduction Today, nearly two-thirds of first marriages are preceded by cohabitation, but even as living together has increasingly become part of the marriage process, fewer cohabitating couples get married and an increasing proportion break up within […]

Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Economic Inequality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life

CCF’s Stephanie Coontz Writes for Harvard Business Review

Posted on April 20, 2018 in Members In The News

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

In her piece for Harvard Business Review, CCF Director of Research and Public Education, Stephanie Coontz, writes about a pernicious form of nostalgia – a collective nostalgia that involves people identifying more closely with their own group and judging members of other groups more negatively. Coontz writes, “When such nostalgia gets politicized, it can lead […]

Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life

Men are helping more around the house and favor more gender equality, new research shows

Posted on April 4, 2018 in Members In The News

Experts: Daniel Carlson / David Cotter

New research by CCF members Daniel Carlson and David Cotter is featured in the Deseret News. Carlson and Cotter presented two new reports to CCF about gender differences in household work and attitudes about gender equality.

Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / Division of Labor in Families / Feminism & Families / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life

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EXPERTS

Michele Adams

Associate Professor of Sociology, Tulane University

Kelly Campbell

Professor of Psychology, California State University, San Bernardino

Daniel Carlson

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

Stephanie Coontz

Director of Research and Public Education, Council on Contemporary Families; Professor, The Evergreen State College

David Cotter

Professor of Sociology, Union College

Rebecca Davis

Associate Professor of History, University of Delaware

Eli Finkel

Professor of Psychology; Professor of Management & Organizations, Northwestern University

Paula Fomby

Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research

Frank Furstenberg

Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

Katherine Gallagher Robbins

Director of Family Policy, Center for American Progress

Kathleen Gerson

Collegiate Professor of Sociology, New York University

Pilar Gonalons-Pons

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Sarah Knott

Associate Professor of History and Research Fellow, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University

Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida

Arielle Kuperberg

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

Susan Matt

Presidential Distinguished Professor of History, Weber State University

Elaine Tyler May

Regents Professor of American Studies and History, University of Minnesota

Linda McClain

Robert Kent Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law

Melissa Milkie

Professor of Sociology & Chair of the Graduate Department, University of Toronto

Steven Mintz

Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin; Executive Director, Institute for Transformational Learning, University of Texas System

Mark T. Morman

Professor of Communication & Director of Graduate Studies, Baylor University

Michele Pridmore-Brown

Research Scholar, Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, UC Berkeley; Senior Editor, Los Angeles Review of Books

Jennifer Randles

Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University-Fresno

Michael Rosenfeld

Professor of Sociology, Stanford University

Stephen Russell

Professor and Chair, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

Sharon Sassler

Professor, Cornell University

Liana Sayer

Professor of Sociology, Maryland Population Research Center

Betsey Stevenson

Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan

Nicholas Wolfinger

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