CCF Briefing
- Can We Live Longer but Stay Younger?
- The Trouble With Fathering 114 Kids
- Capital punishment and death row inmates: A research roundup
- Housing practices and black wealth
- The Rise of the Haphazard Self
- The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men
- Perry Preschool: Intergenerational Effects Toolkit
- It’s time to end the callous policy of inmate Medicaid exclusion
- ‘Rapid DNA’ promises to identify fake families at the border. It won’t.
- The Reign of ‘Emma’ and ‘Liam’ Continues
- Could miscarriages land women in jail? Let’s clarify these Georgia and Alabama abortion bills.
- How freezing embryos changed this woman’s attitude toward dating
- Getting an uncooperative 5-year-old from Point A to Point B
- America’s Growing Gender Jail Gap
- #MeToo Is Changing How Sex Is Simulated
- The Particular Cruelty of Domestic Violence
- Don’t Be Grateful That Dad Does His Share
- What Does It Mean to Be ‘Ready’ for a Relationship?
- California is overhauling sex education guidance for schools — and religious conservatives don’t like it
- The promise of historic Brown v. Board school desegregation ruling is ‘at grave risk,’ report says
- The Surprising Tax Bill for Sons and Daughters of Gold-Star Families
- One-Third of Middle Class Can’t Afford $400 Surprise Expense, Fed Finds
- What’s a Liberal Arts Degree Worth?
- Many Americans Will Need Long-Term Care. Most Won’t be Able to Afford It.
- Report: Women Freelancers on Upwork & Fiverr Make 50% Less Than Men
- When breast isn’t best
- Is emotional labour next to be outsourced and professionalised?
- Don’t Visit Your Doctor in the Afternoon
- Why Politics Should Be Kept Out of Miscarriages
- Girls Enter the Boys’ World of Flipping
- Stuff Your ‘Rules’
- Actually, Gen X Did Sell Out, Invent All Things Millennial, and Cause Everything Else That’s Great and Awful
- The Trauma of Sanctuary
- Women, Alcohol and Perceived ‘Sexual Availability’
- Why the gender pay gap persists (and what we can do about it)
- Can We Live Longer but Stay Younger?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/can-we-live-longer-but-stay-younger
Some view old age not as a fact to be endured but as a disease to be cured. With greater longevity, the quest to avoid the infirmities of aging is more urgent than ever.
- The Trouble With Fathering 114 Kids
A suitor on The Bachelorette says he is a sperm donor with 114 kids—is that too many?
- Capital punishment and death row inmates: A research roundup
This sampling of peer-reviewed research looks at capital punishment from multiple angles, including inmate experiences on death row, factors that affect sentencing and shifts in public opinion about the death penalty. We’ve also included several studies on prisoners’ last words.
- Housing practices and black wealth
https://journalistsresource.org/home/racist-lending-before-redlining
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that even without federally sanctioned redlining, areas of major U.S. cities that shifted from white to black during the 1930s would have suffered economically. Many black families faced a double whammy of soaring rental prices and plunging home values as they moved from the American South to cities in the North and Midwest.
- The Rise of the Haphazard Self By DAVID BROOKS
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/opinion/working-class-men.html
How working-class men detach from work, family and church.
- The Tenuous Attachments of Working-Class Men
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.33.2.211
how working-class men describe their attachments to work, family, and religion, and how this aligns with counterproductive behaviors.
- Perry Preschool: Intergenerational Effects Toolkit
https://heckmanequation.org/resource/perry-preschool-midlife-toolkit/
Looks at the life outcomes of Perry Preschool participants at midlife, as well as outcomes of their children. Finds that those children who participated in the Perry Preschool program had significant gains in personal and family life outcomes that provided their children with positive multi-generation effects on education, health, employment and civic life.
- It’s time to end the callous policy of inmate Medicaid exclusion
Obamacare gave most low-income people Medicaid coverage, extending the health-care plan to the poor and near-poor. But when they are jailed or imprisoned, an old federal law means their Medicaid coverage disappears.
- ‘Rapid DNA’ promises to identify fake families at the border. It won’t.
- 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.
- Could miscarriages land women in jail? Let’s clarify these Georgia and Alabama abortion bills.
Misinformation has been rampant. Here’s what’s really going on.
- How freezing embryos changed this woman’s attitude toward dating
When I decided to freeze my genetic material, I didn’t anticipate how it would affect my attitude about romantic love.
- Getting an uncooperative 5-year-old from Point A to Point B
How does a parent move a child along to the next activity when that child simply refuses?
- America’s Growing Gender Jail Gap
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/05/07/americas-growing-gender-jail-gap/
While today far fewer men are going to jail than before, the number of women getting incarcerated has stayed stubbornly high.
- #MeToo Is Changing How Sex Is Simulated
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/589033/intimacy-directors
- The Particular Cruelty of Domestic Violence
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/05/no-visible-bruises-domestic-violence/588631
America’s broken legal system, combined with cultural beliefs about family, pressures women to stay in violent, dangerous marriages.
- Don’t Be Grateful That Dad Does His Share
When mothers feel lucky to have any help at all, it’s an impediment to the elusive goal of equity in the home.
- What Does It Mean to Be ‘Ready’ for a Relationship?
You don’t have to love yourself before you can love someone else.
- California is overhauling sex education guidance for schools — and religious conservatives don’t like it
- The promise of historic Brown v. Board school desegregation ruling is ‘at grave risk,’ report says
While intense levels of segregation markedly decreased for black students after the 1954 court ruling, they have been rising again since Supreme Court decisions in the 1990s led to the end of hundreds of desegregation orders and plans across the country.
- The Surprising Tax Bill for Sons and Daughters of Gold-Star Families
A change to the ‘Kiddie Tax’ is raising taxes for children of service members who died on duty—and on many other young people
- One-Third of Middle Class Can’t Afford $400 Surprise Expense, Fed Finds
Many U.S. adults remain in position of ‘financial fragility’ despite ‘marginally’ improved economic security, central banker says
- What’s a Liberal Arts Degree Worth?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-a-liberal-arts-degree-worth-11557501301
English and history majors typically don’t earn as much as their classmates focusing on business or science, but their earning potential develops over the course of their careers.
- 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.
- Report: Women Freelancers on Upwork & Fiverr Make 50% Less Than Men
https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/report-women-freelancers-upwork-fiverr-make-less-men/
- When breast isn’t best
https://aeon.co/essays/why-breastfeeding-is-not-always-best-for-mother-or-baby
New parents face intense moral pressure from every quarter to breastfeed their babies. But sometimes bottle is best
- Is emotional labour next to be outsourced and professionalised?
https://aeon.co/ideas/is-emotional-labour-next-to-be-outsourced-and-professionalised
- Don’t Visit Your Doctor in the Afternoon
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/opinion/dont-visit-your-doctor-in-the-afternoon.html
Everyone suffers decision fatigue, even physicians.
- Why Politics Should Be Kept Out of Miscarriages
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/upshot/miscarriages-politics-georgia-law.html
The possible problems of a new Georgia law, including causing further pain.
- Girls Enter the Boys’ World of Flipping
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/well/move/girls-enter-the-boys-world-of-flipping.html
Teen girls are claiming their place inside an emerging online community of extreme athletes who flip, freerun and defy expectations.
- Stuff Your ‘Rules’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/style/the-rules-book.html
“The Rules” taught us how to deform ourselves to nab a husband. But what would we do once we had him?
- Actually, Gen X Did Sell Out, Invent All Things Millennial, and Cause Everything Else That’s Great and Awful
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/style/gen-x-millenials.html
Gen X set the precedent for today’s social justice warriors and capitalist super-soldiers. Enjoy, and also, sorry!
- The Trauma of Sanctuary
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/opinion/undocumented-immigrants.html
Years living as an undocumented immigrant taught me not to believe in the American dream.
- Women, Alcohol and Perceived ‘Sexual Availability’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/health/women-alcohol-drinking.html
A new study finds that women who drink alcohol in social settings are seen as more sexually available and “less human.”
- Why the gender pay gap persists (and what we can do about it)
Professions dominated by women are undervalued in ways legislation can’t fix.
