CCF Briefing
- Why Can’t Men Say ‘I Love You’ to Each Other?
- Anita Hill: Let’s Talk About How to End Sexual Violence
- What Do New State Abortion Laws Really Mean for Women?
- How Many School Shootings Have There Been in 2019?
- Measles Outbreak: Fears Over New Clusters of Unvaccinated Children in New York
- Many Hospitals Charge Double or Even Triple What Medicare Would Pay
- Statins May Cut Glaucoma Risk
- How to Stop a Hot Flash
- How much difference does going to a top university make?
- ‘Mother Is a Verb’ Review: What’s It Like to Be a Mom?
- Unemployment Isn’t What It Used to Be
- When Was the Last Time American Children Were So Afraid?
- The Most Anxious Generation Goes to Work
- A Wake-Up Call for Grads: Entry-Level Jobs Aren’t So Entry Level Any More
- Cities Can’t Build Their Way Out of Inequality
- How Does Toxic Stress Affect Low-Income and Black Children?
- Moms spend even more time on housework when a man’s in the house. Here’s why.
- Harming our Common Future: America’s Segregated Schools 65 Years after Brown
- Can the Racial Wealth Gap Be Closed Without Speaking of Race? By EMILY BADGER
- Many Americans Will Need Long-Term Care. Most Won’t be Able to Afford It.
- ‘My Mother Called This Male Pattern of Behavior “Creative Incompetence”’
- ‘It’s Like the Wild West’: Sexual Assault Victims Struggle in K-12 Schools
- Welcome to the World of Subprime Children
- The Race to Limit Abortion Access
- Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous
- ‘Threatening the Future’: The High Stakes of Deepening School Segregation
- For Mother’s Day, Save Women’s Lives
- How Much Does DNA Change Our Life Story?
- Talking to Patients About End-of-Life Care
- Having less sex? Why experts say there’s no need to panic
- Name This Group of Americans
- The Reign of ‘Emma’ and ‘Liam’ Continues
- #MeToo Is Changing How Sex Is Simulated on Set
- For Mother’s Day, Save Women’s Lives
- Trying to Outsmart My Wife’s Morning Sickness
- I Wanted to Be a Mom. I Didn’t Want to Be Pregnant.
- A Little-Known Skin Disease That Can Disrupt People’s Sex Lives
- The American Family and Working Moms
- When Lenders Push Borrowers Over the Edge
- Invest in Your Relationships. The Payoff Is Immense.
- Why Can’t Men Say ‘I Love You’ to Each Other?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/style/modern-love-college-i-love-you-man-.html
It doesn’t count if you add “bro” or “man” to the end.
- Anita Hill: Let’s Talk About How to End Sexual Violence
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/anita-hill-sexual-violence.html
That’s the most important conversation right now.
- What Do New State Abortion Laws Really Mean for Women?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/health/state-abortion-laws.html
The so-called fetal “heartbeat” laws ban abortion before many women even know they’re pregnant.
- How Many School Shootings Have There Been in 2019?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/us/school-shootings-2019.html
Across the country this year, at least eight shootings have taken place on high school or college campuses, killing four people and wounding another 17.
- Measles Outbreak: Fears Over New Clusters of Unvaccinated Children in New York
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/nyregion/measles-outbreak-ny-schools.html
Health authorities have been focusing on schools affiliated with ultra-Orthodox Judaism. But immunization data shows that reluctance to vaccinate is much more widespread.
- Many Hospitals Charge Double or Even Triple What Medicare Would Pay
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/health/hospitals-prices-medicare.html
A study of 25 states provides a rare glimpse of the stark disparities between what private insurers and the federal government paid for inpatient and outpatient care.
- Statins May Cut Glaucoma Risk
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/well/live/statins-may-cut-glaucoma-risk.html
Long-term use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs cut the risk of a leading cause of blindness.
- How to Stop a Hot Flash
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/well/how-to-stop-a-hot-flash.html
Effective treatments are available to stop the discomfort of menopause symptoms.
- How much difference does going to a top university make?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47963633
The college cheating scandal made clear just how far some wealthy parents will go to help their child gain admission to a top university. But as Richard Reeves and Katherine Guyot argue in BBC News, it’s the poorest and least privileged students who stand the most to gain from entry.
- ‘Mother Is a Verb’ Review: What’s It Like to Be a Mom?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mother-is-a-verb-review-whats-it-like-to-be-a-mom-11557442767
Most primers on parenting have been written by men. We know very little about how women feel about the work and wonders of mothering.
- Unemployment Isn’t What It Used to Be
https://www.wsj.com/articles/unemployment-isnt-what-it-used-to-be-11557442825
The low rate doesn’t take account of low labor-force participation. Wages are a better indication of slack.
- When Was the Last Time American Children Were So Afraid?
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/05/lockdown-drill-fear/589090
Students used to duck and cover. Now they have lockdown drills
- The Most Anxious Generation Goes to Work
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-most-anxious-generation-goes-to-work-11557418951
New college graduates report higher levels of anxiety. How managers can help them steer past fear and improve work performance—and how young workers can work to calm their anxiety and be more effective.
- A Wake-Up Call for Grads: Entry-Level Jobs Aren’t So Entry Level Any More
Gone are the days when new hires spent years learning the ropes before being handed important work. The Class of 2019 will be thrown right into the fray.
- Cities Can’t Build Their Way Out of Inequality
www.citylab.com/equity/2019/05/housing-supply-home-prices-economic-inequality-cities/588997/
A new analysis finds that liberalizing zoning rules and building more won’t solve the urban affordability crisis, and could exacerbate it.
- How Does Toxic Stress Affect Low-Income and Black Children?
Traumatic childhood experiences can harm children’s ability to learn reading, writing, and math, according to a new report.
- Moms spend even more time on housework when a man’s in the house. Here’s why.
when there’s a man in the house, mothers spend more time cooking, cleaning, shopping and doing laundry than their single-mom counterparts. This is the case even when a mom brings home the proverbial bacon.
- Harming our Common Future: America’s Segregated Schools 65 Years after Brown
White students, on average, attend a school in which 69% of the students are white, while Latino students attend a school in which 55% of the students are Latino. Segregation for black students is rising in all parts of the U.S. Black students, who account for 15% of enrollment, as they did in 1970, are in schools that average 47% black students. Asian students, on average, attend schools with 24% fellow Asians. New York remains the most segregated state for African American students with 65% of African
American students in intensely segregated minority schools. California is the most segregated for
Latinos, where 58% attend intensely segregated schools, and the typical Latino student is in a
school with only 15% white classmates.
- Can the Racial Wealth Gap Be Closed Without Speaking of Race? By EMILY BADGER
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/upshot/racial-wealth-gap-2020-candidates.html
Political momentum on the left for such an effort must face the reality of legal obstacles, particularly from the Supreme Court.
- Many Americans Will Need Long-Term Care. Most Won’t be Able to Afford It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/health/assisted-living-costs-elderly.html
A decade from now, most middle-income seniors will not be able to pay the rising costs of independent or assisted living.
- ‘My Mother Called This Male Pattern of Behavior “Creative Incompetence”’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/parenting-housework-fathers.html
How do you feel about the division of labor in your home? Readers share their views.
- ‘It’s Like the Wild West’: Sexual Assault Victims Struggle in K-12 Schools
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/us/politics/sexual-assault-school.html
While college campuses have become the battleground for Title IX debates, the mishandling of sexual assault cases in primary and secondary schools receives less attention.
- Welcome to the World of Subprime Children
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/sunday/student-loans.html
Income share agreements sound like a better deal than today’s student loans, but what will they do to society?
- The Race to Limit Abortion Access
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/us/abortion-laws-alabama-georgia.html
Four states have passed “heartbeat bills,” and Alabama is close to banning most abortions completely, a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade.
- Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/well/family/adventure-playgrounds-junk-playgrounds.html
“I came to the counterintuitive conclusion that engaging in risk is actually very important in preventing injuries,” a researcher says.
- ‘Threatening the Future’: The High Stakes of Deepening School Segregation
In a multiracial America, school segregation looks very different than it did in 1954, when the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education. But it still persists.
- For Mother’s Day, Save Women’s Lives
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/sunday/mothers-day-pregnancy-cancer.html
Hundreds of deaths today alone could have been prevented.
- How Much Does DNA Change Our Life Story?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/sunday/dna-tests-testing.html
As my father lay dying, we decided to find out.
- Talking to Patients About End-of-Life Care
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/letters/end-of-life-care.html
Readers offer their advice for patients, doctors and family members so that most people do not, in one reader’s words, “continue to die badly.”
- Having less sex? Why experts say there’s no need to panic
A U.K. study found people are getting intimate less often, especially couples
- Name This Group of Americans
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/opinion/atheists-religion.html
It’s growing quickly, and it suffers discrimination. Also see:
https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/
- The Reign of ‘Emma’ and ‘Liam’ Continues
New data on the most popular baby names of 2018 reveal that long vowels and smooth consonants ruled once again—while the very ’80s name of an actual royal made a resurgence.
- #MeToo Is Changing How Sex Is Simulated on Set
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/589033/intimacy-directors/
- For Mother’s Day, Save Women’s Lives
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/sunday/mothers-day-pregnancy-cancer.html
Hundreds of deaths today alone could have been prevented.
- Trying to Outsmart My Wife’s Morning Sickness
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/sunday/morning-sickness-pregnancy.html
I didn’t realize how much puking we should all be thanking our moms for enduring every Mother’s Day.
- I Wanted to Be a Mom. I Didn’t Want to Be Pregnant.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/opinion/sunday/motherhood-pregnancy.html
The women in my family became mothers early. It took me longer to understand my own mind.
- A Little-Known Skin Disease That Can Disrupt People’s Sex Lives
Patients deal with pain and itching and often encounter medical ignorance and mistreatment until affected tissues become irreparably scarred.
- The American Family and Working Moms
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/opinion/letters/family-working-women.html
Readers react to an article arguing that it should be easier for women to stay at home with the kids rather than in the work force.
- When Lenders Push Borrowers Over the Edge
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/opinion/windstream-bankruptcy-cds.html
“Are you working in our interests? Or are you trying to screw me?”
- Invest in Your Relationships. The Payoff Is Immense.
Small investments in our everyday relationships can offer huge benefits when we most need them.
