CCF Briefing
1. The 5 Years That Changed Dating
2. Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials.
3. How Do American Families Have Time to Watch 8 Hours of TV Every Day?
4. The broad, ragged cut
5. Late to Launch: The Post-Collegiate Struggle
6. Amid girl’s death, U.S. agents overwhelmed as hundreds of migrant families arrive at remote crossings
7. Millennials Are Keeping Family Holiday Cards Alive
8. The Problem With This Year’s Most Comfortable Holiday Fad
9. US population growth hits an 80-year low
10. Living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common: ‘I see no way out.’
11. From sex selection to surrogates, American IVF clinics provide services outlawed elsewhere
12. Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass women: ‘Everybody is a potential target’
13, Growing disillusionment with capitalism
14. For unsolved cases lasting a year, finding the killer becomes nearly impossible
15. The Special Misogyny Reserved for Mothers
16. ‘Help, My Boss Has Breasts!’
17. Hearing Loss Threatens Mind, Life and Limb
18. Congratulations on the Promotion. But Did Science Get a Demotion?
19. India’s Newest War for Independence
20. In Rehab, ‘Two Warring Factions’: Abstinence vs. Medication
21. A Woman’s Rights
22. What Matters in Old Age: Rereading, Reconsidering and Reassessing
23. ‘I Feel Invisible’: Native Students Languish in Public Schools
24. What Foods Are Banned in Europe but Not Banned in the U.S.?
25. How Bangladesh Made Abortion Safer
26. Finding That Parenting Sweet Spot
27. Hiring People With Disabilities Is Good Business
28. What Lies Beneath the Surface
29. When Comics Writers Defy Gender Norms
30. How #MeToo Changes ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’
31. The Chart That Shows the Price Tag for Trump’s Obamacare Sabotage
32. 6 Ways to Have Better Relationships in 2019
33. Happy New Year! May Your City Never Become San Francisco, New York or Seattle
34. The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting
35. 6 Ways to Be an Effective Parent in 2019
36. Small-Town America Is Dying. How Can We Save It?
37. The Way American Parents Think About Chores Is Bizarre
38. Progressives are failing D.C.’s poor people
39. Here are 10 things studies taught us about the family in 2018
40. America’s Invisible Pot Addicts
41. Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test
42. The False Stereotype of Two Americas
43. The biggest problem with the criminal justice reform bill
1. The 5 Years That Changed Dating
When Tinder became available to all smartphone users in 2013, it ushered in a new era in the history of romance.
2. Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials.
The American system has thrown them into debt, depressed their wages, kept them from buying homes-and then blamed them for everything.
3. How Do American Families Have Time to Watch 8 Hours of TV Every Day?
Understanding the attempts to quantify the nation’s most popular leisure activity
4. The broad, ragged cut
Aptitude and IQ tests are used to distinguish those young people who deserve a chance from those who do not. Do they work?
5. Late to Launch: The Post-Collegiate Struggle
Despite a low unemployment rate, many young adults lack job prospects that mesh with their idealized vision of the post-college world.
6. Amid girl’s death, U.S. agents overwhelmed as hundreds of migrant families arrive at remote crossings
The 7-year-old girl who died in U.S. custody came to the border with a brazen start-up smuggling operation.
7. Millennials Are Keeping Family Holiday Cards Alive
Finally, something they have not killed
8. The Problem With This Year’s Most Comfortable Holiday Fad
Weighted blankets began as a coping device in the special-needs community. Now the Instagram-shopping masses can’t get enough of them. Whether it be buying weighted blankets uk or from US makers, people are clamoring for these heavy sleep aids due to the rise in insomnia amongst the younger generations.
9. US population growth hits an 80-year low
The U.S. population growth rate of 0.62 percent for 2017-2018 is the lowest registered in 80 years.
10. Living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common: ‘I see no way out.’
Four in 10 adults say they couldn’t produce $400 in an emergency without sliding into debt or selling something, according to the 2017 figures.
11. From sex selection to surrogates, American IVF clinics provide services outlawed elsewhere
While many countries have moved in recent years to impose boundaries on assisted reproduction, the U.S. fertility industry remains largely unregulated and routinely offers services outlawed elsewhere. As a result, the United States has emerged as a popular destination for IVF patients from around the world seeking controversial services – not just sex selection, but commercial surrogacy, anonymous sperm donation and screening for physical characteristics such as eye color.
12. Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass women: ‘Everybody is a potential target’
13, Growing disillusionment with capitalism
Gallup found this summer: “Americans aged 18 to 29 are as positive about socialism (51%) as they are about capitalism (45%).” That’s “a 12-point decline in young adults’ positive views of capitalism in just the past two years and a marked shift since 2010, when 68% viewed it positively.”
14. For unsolved cases lasting a year, finding the killer becomes nearly impossible
A Washington Post examination of 8,000 homicide arrests across 25 major U.S. cities since 2007 found that in half of the cases, an arrest was made in 10 days or fewer.
15. The Special Misogyny Reserved for Mothers
Motherhood is the most complex topic I have ever reported on. And yet it has been treated as niche and unimportant.
16. ‘Help, My Boss Has Breasts!’
How can we continue to let women into offices while they insist on occupying human bodies?
17. Hearing Loss Threatens Mind, Life and Limb
Poor hearing is not just an annoying inconvenience.
18. Congratulations on the Promotion. But Did Science Get a Demotion?
The incentives of grant funding and career advancement, even the potential for fame, can influence researchers.
19. India’s Newest War for Independence
Women there aren’t just protesting against violence. They are fighting for freedom from the institutions that hold them back.
20. In Rehab, ‘Two Warring Factions’: Abstinence vs. Medication
A reluctant evolution is taking place in residential drug treatment for opioid addiction. Here’s a look at one center’s wary shift.
21. A Woman’s Rights
More and more laws are treating a fetus as a person, and a woman as less of one, as states charge pregnant women with crimes.
22. What Matters in Old Age: Rereading, Reconsidering and Reassessing
The literary critic Susan Gubar’s memoir, “Late-Life Love,” blends tales of her marriage with discussions of works whose meaning has changed for her over time.
23. ‘I Feel Invisible’: Native Students Languish in Public Schools
At Wolf Point High School in rural Montana, Native American students face the same neglect Native students across the U.S. do as they navigate a school system that has failed American Indians.
24. What Foods Are Banned in Europe but Not Banned in the U.S.?
The European Union prohibits many food additives and other drugs that are widely used in American foods.
25. How Bangladesh Made Abortion Safer
The government’s effort to help Rohingya victims of wartime rape has lessons for the world.
26. Finding That Parenting Sweet Spot
It’s possible to make things better for both children and their parents, readers say.
27. Hiring People With Disabilities Is Good Business
Microsoft, Bank of America and CVS are just a few big companies that profit from their proactive employment practices.
28. What Lies Beneath the Surface
It wasn’t the first time patients have told me that having a life-threatening diagnosis roused some past demons, or made them see their relationships in a different light.
29. When Comics Writers Defy Gender Norms
In her column, Hillary Chute reviews four new graphic novels that use the form to challenge societal expectations about sex.
30. How #MeToo Changes ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’
In 2018, the rape accusation at the center of Barry Jenkins’s film became more complicated than James Baldwin could have imagined.
31. The Chart That Shows the Price Tag for Trump’s Obamacare Sabotage
If you’re middle class and looking for insurance through the health law, chances are you’re paying a penalty courtesy of the G.O.P.
32. 6 Ways to Have Better Relationships in 2019
Say I do … to fulfillment.
33. Happy New Year! May Your City Never Become San Francisco, New York or Seattle
Or Portland, Denver, Boston, Dallas, Houston or Los Angeles.
34. The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting
Raising children has become significantly more time-consuming and expensive, amid a sense that opportunity has grown more elusive.
35. 6 Ways to Be an Effective Parent in 2019
Expert advice on how to raise children who are resilient, confident and able to handle stress.
36. Small-Town America Is Dying. How Can We Save It?
Aging populations, unemployment, addiction: Readers talk about the obstacles to saving rural communities.
37. The Way American Parents Think About Chores Is Bizarre
Children naturally want to help at a very early age-but many families wait to conscript them until that desire has faded.
38. Progressives are failing D.C.’s poor people
Just how much more “help” from well-intentioned progressive politicians can those seemingly stuck on the lower rungs of the District’s socioeconomic ladder take before they break?
39. Here are 10 things studies taught us about the family in 2018
Family roles are more important to Americans than politics, religion and other ways they define themselves. Among parents with minor children at home, 1 in 8 also care for an adult.
40. America’s Invisible Pot Addicts
More and more Americans are reporting near-constant cannabis use, as legalization forges ahead.
41. Why Rich Kids Are So Good at the Marshmallow Test
Affluence-not willpower-seems to be what’s behind some kids’ capacity to delay gratification.
42. The False Stereotype of Two Americas
Statistically speaking, big cities and rural places have a lot more in common than we commonly believe.
43, The biggest problem with the criminal justice reform bill
It’s not that the First Step Act lets too many people out of prison, but that it lets too many go in.
44. Are fertility drugs safe? Critics fear unregulated providers overprescribe them – glossing over serious risks.
The drugs’ long-term safety and the incidence of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, the most immediate and potentially fatal complication, remain open to debate, even as the clinics offering them have become a multibillion-dollar industry serving hundreds of thousands of women a year.
45. The Science Behind Making Your Child Smarter
We all have our assumptions about what works-here’s what the data really tells us about ways we can improve intelligence
46. The top 10 places people are moving, and how their choices differ by race
47. The demographic time bomb that could hit America
Japan’s unfolding demographic crisis provides some lessons for where America might be headed.
48. ‘A Pumping Conspiracy’: Why Workers Smuggled Breast Pumps Into Prison
Many employers don’t provide workers with time and space to express breast milk. Millions of families are affected – and often, it’s a violation of federal law.
49. ‘Birth Tourism’ Is Legal in Canada. A Lawmaker Calls it Unscrupulous.
As more pregnant women arrive from overseas to give birth, critics say visitors are gaming the immigration system and debasing Canadian citizenship.
50. How to Crush Your Habits in the New Year with the Help of Science
Make 2019 the year you actually do all the things you want to do. We asked the experts and checked the journals for the most useful tips you can take to heart.
51. Finding Female Friends Over 50 Can Be Hard. These Women Figured It Out.
“There were meet-ups that were generalized for those in their 20s, 30s and 40s, but there was nothing for older women,” said the founder of a group in Los Angeles. “And I didn’t want men.”
52. Public Pre-K in New York City Keeps Getting Better
The vast majority of prekindergarten programs in New York City are high quality, according to new data. But challenges remain for early childhood education.
