CCF Expert Chloe Bird for Newsweek: Why Mothers Need Continuous Care Even After Children are Born

Posted on May 10, 2021 in Members In The News

Experts: Chloe E. Bird

Bird and co-authors Lois McCloskey and Ann Celi write, “Pregnancy care should be conceptualized not as a singular event or series of events, but as a key source of information for women’s health care prevention and treatment needs across the life course. Creating a bridge to support such health care could also help to address […]

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: […]

Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Health Care

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.

Topics of Expertise: Health & Illness / Health Care

It’s April 15: Do You Know Where Your Income Tax Dollars Are Going?

Posted on April 15, 2008 in Brief Reports

Experts: Andrew Cherlin

Americans tend to think we are better off than families in most other industrial countries because we pay lower income taxes. But when we factor in the higher amount Americans pay for health care, child care, and education, the comparison is not always in our favor. Where do American families’ tax dollars go and what […]

Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Health & Illness / Health Care / Labor & Workforce / TANF & Public Assistance / Work & Family

Reversing Course: The Impact of “Faith-Based” Sexual Health and Family Planning Policies at Home and Abroad

Posted on January 17, 2006 in Brief Reports

By AnneMarie Murdock Research Intern Council on Contemporary Families Recent trends in U.S. sexual education and reproductive health policies threaten to jeopardize the significant progress made during the 1980s and 1990s in improving teen sexual health domestically and HIV/STD infection rates, unwanted pregnancies, and reproductive health care worldwide. This is due to many reasons, one […]

Topics of Expertise: Fertility,Reproduction & Sexual Health / Gender & Sexuality / Health & Illness / Health Care / Reproductive Health / Singles & Dating

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CCF Expert Chloe Bird for Newsweek: Why Mothers Need Continuous Care Even After Children are Born

Health Care Is a Family Stressor—So There’s Good News

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

It’s April 15: Do You Know Where Your Income Tax Dollars Are Going?

Reversing Course: The Impact of “Faith-Based” Sexual Health and Family Planning Policies at Home and Abroad

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