CCF members Daniel Carlson and Amanda Miller respond to new research on declining sexual frequency among American couples. In their Op-ed, they debunk four common myths about couples’ sex lives, highlighting important factors that predict sexual frequency and relationship satisfaction. Read the Op-ed on CNN here.
Topics of Expertise: Cohabitation, Committed Relationships & Marriage / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life
Michelle Janning’s recent release, The Stuff of Family Life, offers a timely look at how modern society and technology shapes our relationships and our lives. Like an archaeologist studying ancient civilizations through the things they left behind, Janning excavates contemporary life through our houses and possessions, from childhood stuffed animals and security blankets to retirement […]
Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family LifeWelfare Reform at 20. How’s that working? Overview of the Welfare Reform at 20 Online Symposium prepared for Council on Contemporary Families by symposium editor Virginia Rutter, Professor of Sociology, Framingham State University. CCF’s Online Symposium examines the origins, progress, and future of welfare reform. August 22, 2016. Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton proposed […]
Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / TANF & Public Assistance / Work & FamilyWelfare Reform’s 20th Anniversary A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Stephanie Coontz, Professor of History and Family Studies, The Evergreen State College August 22, 2016 Twenty years ago this month, Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which repealed the cash assistance program, Aid to […]
Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / TANF & Public Assistance
The New Republic has published an introduction to the new version of The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap, by CCF’s own, Stephanie Coontz.
Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family LifeThe Way We Still Never Were: Another Quarter Century of Family Change and Diversity A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Stephanie Coontz, Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families and professor of History and Family Studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Editor’s […]
Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family LifeCCF Research Director and eminent expert on the history of marriage, Stephanie Coontz reflects on the blurred meaning of marital status in Single or married: Does it really matter anymore?, an opinion piece for the Washington Post.
Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Singles & Dating
CCF Research Director Stephanie Coontz is cited in the SCOTUS decision legalizing same-sex marriage, June 26, 2015. Check out this related story in the Seattle Times.
Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Marriage & Divorce
Husbands and wives who share similar levels of education now enjoy a lower risk of divorce than those in which husbands have more education—a trend consistent with a shift toward egalitarian marriages.
Topics of Expertise: Gender & Sexuality / History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life
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.
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 and Workforce / Work & FamilyAssistant Professor of Family, Health, and Policy in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah
Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware
Professor of Psychology; Professor of Management & Organizations, Northwestern University
Associate Research Scientist at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
Professor of Sociology and Research Associate in the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
Director of Family Policy Center for American Progress
Associate Professor of Sociology, Chair of Women's & Gender Studies, University of Missouri
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, University of Florida
Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Professor of History, Weber State University
Regents Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Minnesota
Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin, Executive Director, Institute for Transformational Learning, University of Texas System
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Baylor University
Scholar with the Center for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, UC Berkeley/ Los Angeles Review of Books
Professor of Family & Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Utah
