CCF Briefing
- Who Needs Gender? Why Men and Women Are Dressing Identically
- On-Demand Grandkids and Robot Pals to Keep Senior Loneliness at Bay
- ‘Day Care For All’: How America Views Universal Pre-K
- Why Celibacy Matters
- Why the Priesthood Needs Women
- The Most Talked About Non-Topic at the Vatican? Homosexuality.
- Stop Counting Women
- It’s Not That Men Don’t Know What Consent Is
- What Baby Formula Does for Fathers
- Why Girls Outpace Boys at School but Not at Work
- Why Does Obama Scold Black Boys?
- Twins Were Born to a Gay Couple. Only One Child Was Recognized as a U.S. Citizen, Until Now.
- How economic inequality gives rise to hyper-parenting
- Five myths about journalism
- Doctors and Racial Bias: Still a Long Way to Go
- How the Upper Middle Class Is Really Doing
- Drafting Only Men for the Military Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules
- Michelle Obama’s Rules of Assimilation
- The Child Abuse Charge Was Dismissed. But It Can Still Cost You a Job.
- The Challenges of a Child’s Report Card
- Is Your Rent Through the Roof? Oregon Wants to Fix That.
- What’s the Best Advice Older Generations Can Give Boys of Color to Improve Their Lives?
- The Police Were Called for Help. They Arrested Her Instead.
- Changing ‘the tragedy narrative’: More people try a joyful approach to Alzheimer’s
- Unemployed and living far away from jobs
- Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Leave Military Families Reeling
- Time for parents to power down: Why coddling children can harm them
- The Jail Health-Care Crisis
- Why Aren’t Women Advancing More in Corporate America?
- For older people who stay in their homes, help is needed but often is inadequate.
- A Court Battle Over a Dallas Toddler Could Decide the Future of Native American Law
- Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
- Who Needs Gender? Why Men and Women Are Dressing Identically
https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-needs-gender-why-men-and-women-are-dressing-identically-11550782766
Unisex style is rising, but are separate men’s and women’s clothing lines really a thing of the past—and what does the gender-neutral revolution mean for you?
- On-Demand Grandkids and Robot Pals to Keep Senior Loneliness at Bay
Devices and services that facilitate—and in some cases replace—human contact are attracting insurers looking to combat an ever-more lethal crisis of loneliness
- ‘Day Care For All’: How America Views Universal Pre-K
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/02/19/day-care-for-all-universal-pre-k-child-care-working-families
Some cities and states have tried implementing universal pre-K. But the idea’s struggled to find a nationwide platform. Could that be changing?
- Why Celibacy Matters
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/why-celibacy-matters.html
How the critique of Catholicism changes and yet remains the same.
- Why the Priesthood Needs Women
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/women-catholic-priests.html
Far more than celibacy or sexual repression, barring one gender from the Roman Catholic Church’s highest ranks provides the implicit rationale for clerical abuse.
- The Most Talked About Non-Topic at the Vatican? Homosexuality.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/world/europe/vatican-summit-gay-priests.html
As Pope Francis gathered church leaders to discuss the abuse of children, the topic most buzzing at meeting margins was not even on the agenda.
- Stop Counting Women
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/women-directors-quotas.html
Quotas and tallies won’t bring real progress on gender parity.
- It’s Not That Men Don’t Know What Consent Is
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/sexual-consent-college.html
They often understand that what they’re doing is wrong — then they do it anyway.
- What Baby Formula Does for Fathers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/formula-breastfeeding-fatherhood.html
It’s harder to parent equally when you can’t feed your child.
- Why Girls Outpace Boys at School but Not at Work
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/letters/girls-boys-school-work.html
Readers cite “institutional sexism,” girls’ lack of confidence and the burden of child care, and suggest what to do.
- Why Does Obama Scold Black Boys?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/my-brothers-keeper-obama.html
The former president still can’t see the beautiful and complex range of black culture.
- Twins Were Born to a Gay Couple. Only One Child Was Recognized as a U.S. Citizen, Until Now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/gay-couple-twin-sons-citizenship.html
One twin was conceived with sperm from his American father, and the other was conceived with sperm from his Israeli father. Only the first boy was recognized as an American citizen.
- How economic inequality gives rise to hyper-parenting
The greater a country’s income inequality, the likelier parents are to push their kids to work hard
- Five myths about journalism
Explanations about the decline of journalism are clouded by misconceptions about the industry and its history.
- Doctors and Racial Bias: Still a Long Way to Go
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/upshot/doctors-and-racial-bias-still-a-long-way-to-go.html
It would be easy to look at a photo from the 1980s and conclude that things have changed. Many have not.
- How the Upper Middle Class Is Really Doing
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/24/opinion/income-inequality-upper-middle-class.html?module=inline
Is it more similar to the top 1 percent or the working class?
- Drafting Only Men for the Military Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/24/us/military-draft-men-unconstitutional.html
Now that women can serve in any combat role, the judge in Houston said, a draft registration law that applies only to men is no longer justified.
- Michelle Obama’s Rules of Assimilation
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/24/opinion/michelle-obama-becoming.html
Why do black people still feel we have to retain white empathy at the expense of being truly empathetic to ourselves?
- The Child Abuse Charge Was Dismissed. But It Can Still Cost You a Job.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/nyregion/ny-child-abuse-database.html
In New York, it is especially easy to be included in a registry of people accused of mistreating children, and the list can lock people out of employment for years.
- The Challenges of a Child’s Report Card
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/well/family/the-challenges-of-a-childs-report-card.html
When report cards were sent out on Fridays, child maltreatment seemed to increase on the Saturdays immediately following.
- Is Your Rent Through the Roof? Oregon Wants to Fix That.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/us/oregon-rent-control-bill.html
Oregon is expected to enact the nation’s first statewide rent control law, in response to rapidly rising housing costs. Other states are watching closely.
- What’s the Best Advice Older Generations Can Give Boys of Color to Improve Their Lives?
Do you think mentoring young people to make different decisions in how they dress, speak and act can reduce systemic inequality?
- The Police Were Called for Help. They Arrested Her Instead.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/24/world/australia/police-arrest-aboriginal-woman-fines.html
Over the past decade, laws in Western Australia have sent thousands of people to prison for unpaid fines. Aboriginal women are particularly vulnerable, and in the worst cases, have been arrested when they called for help.
- Changing ‘the tragedy narrative’: More people try a joyful approach to Alzheimer’s
A growing camp of people are approaching dementia care with a sense of openness, playfulness and even wonder — even, crazy though it might sound, to see Alzheimer’s as a kind of gift.
- Unemployed and living far away from jobs
A swath of millions of Americans have been jobless for a year or more: the hard-core unemployed. Among the causes for their stubborn unemployment is a lack of skills, a drug habit, or a felony record. But there is another, largely overlooked reason: Many of these unemployed people simply can’t — or won’t — go where the jobs are.
- Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water Leave Military Families Reeling
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/us/military-water-toxic-chemicals.html
The pollution, often from foam used in firefighting, is part of a mounting concern over the presence of toxic substances that could affect at least 10 million Americans.
- Time for parents to power down: Why coddling children can harm them
https://www.chronicle.com/paid-article/time-for-parents-to-power-down/212
- The Jail Health-Care Crisis
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/the-jail-health-care-crisis
The opioid epidemic and other public-health emergencies are being aggravated by failings in the criminal-justice system.
- Why Aren’t Women Advancing More in Corporate America?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/women-corporate-america.html
From the 1970s into the ’90s, women made serious progress in the workplace. Then that progress stalled, especially at the top.
- For older people who stay in their homes, help is needed but often is inadequate.
- A Court Battle Over a Dallas Toddler Could Decide the Future of Native American Law
The federal lawsuit challenges a 1978 law that sought to reckon with America’s history of discriminating against Native Americans. Does it hold up 40 years later?
- Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising identity, transcendence, and community, but failing to deliver.
