CCF Briefing
- This Is Why Modern Parenting Is So Damn Hard
- Racial and ethnic estimates of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in the United States (2015–2060) in adults aged ≥65 years
- What’s new in the quest for Alzheimer’s drugs
- Five myths about prisons
- The Myth of ‘Wage Stagnation’
- Stressed-Out American Parents Could Learn a Lesson From India
- The Unfulfilled Promise of DNA Testing
- For Teens, Romances Where the Couple Never Meets Are Now Normal
- The 2020 Presidential Candidates’ Families Look Like Americans’
- The Trouble With Fathering 114 Kids
- The New Long-Distance Relationship
- In Cities Where It Once Reigned, Heroin Is Disappearing
- What Does It Really Mean to Be 6 Weeks Pregnant?
- ‘This is a Wave’: Inside the Network of Anti-Abortion Activists Winning Across the Country
- Religious Men Can Be Devoted Dads, Too
- The Suburbs Are Coming to a City Near You
- How High School Ruined Leisure
- How Moms and Dads Divide the Work
- SAT Adversity Index: A Drive Toward Diversity Without Discussing Race
- To reform the credit card industry, start with credit scores
- The Problem With the SAT’s Idea of Objectivity
- The Abortion Fight and the Pretense of Precedent
- Second Chance: Life without Student Debt
- 16-Year-Olds Want a Vote. Fifty Years Ago, So Did 18-Year-Olds.
- As Thousands of Taxi Drivers Were Trapped in Loans, Top Officials Counted the Money
- ‘They Were Conned’: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers
- Tech Jobs Lead to the Middle Class. Just Not for the Masses.
- ‘Playing Catch-Up in the Game of Life.’ Millennials Approach Middle Age in Crisis
- The Legal Vulnerability of Roe v. Wade
- Is Our Health Care Spending Worth It?
- Do You Like Your First Name? Would You Change It If You Could?
- Millions Take Gabapentin for Pain. But There’s Scant Evidence It Works.
- We are in the twilight years of the post-WWII baby boom
- What the History of Food Stamps Reveals
- The Complicated Reality of “Sex Trafficking”
- French Patient in Right-to-Die Dispute Is Taken Off Life Support
- This Is Why Modern Parenting Is So Damn Hard
https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/parenting-america-expensive-fix/
Parents are working harder for less and have fewer and fewer support systems. What can be done?
- Racial and ethnic estimates of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in the United States (2015–2060) in adults aged ≥65 years
https://www.alzheimersanddementia.com/article/S1552-5260%2818%2933252-7
About 11% of Americans over the age of 65 are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia.
- What’s new in the quest for Alzheimer’s drugs
How Alzheimer drug trials ended, 1998-2017
- Five myths about prisons
No, prisons aren’t full of nonviolent drug offenders
- The Myth of ‘Wage Stagnation’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-wage-stagnation-11558126174
Usual measures of inflation don’t count the benefits of better products and more consumer choice.
- Stressed-Out American Parents Could Learn a Lesson From India
The country is chaotic and underdeveloped, but moms and dads are sensitive, empathic and attentive.
- The Unfulfilled Promise of DNA Testing
Rapid advances in genetic testing are whipsawing families’ diagnoses and treatment
- For Teens, Romances Where the Couple Never Meets Are Now Normal
A generation that lives online is redefining dating; ‘We only met for 20 minutes and that was the first and last time we ever saw each other’
- The 2020 Presidential Candidates’ Families Look Like Americans’
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/05/2020-candidates-families/589378
As the country’s household structures diversify, the image of a first family is broadening.
- The Trouble With Fathering 114 Kids
A suitor on The Bachelorette says he is a sperm donor with 114 kids—is that too many?
- The New Long-Distance Relationship
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/05/long-distance-relationships/589144
The same technological and economic developments that are pulling couples apart are also making geographic separation less stressful and more enjoyable.
- In Cities Where It Once Reigned, Heroin Is Disappearing
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/health/heroin-fentanyl-deaths-baltimore.html
The rise of the more potent fentanyl in its place has put a generation of older users, who had managed their addiction, at far greater risk of overdose.
- What Does It Really Mean to Be 6 Weeks Pregnant?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/parenting/abortion-six-weeks-pregnant.html
So-called ‘heartbeat’ legislation restricting abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy has started a conversation about when most women actually learn that they’re pregnant.
- ‘This is a Wave’: Inside the Network of Anti-Abortion Activists Winning Across the Country
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/us/anti-abortion-laws.html
The raw cultural momentum of the anti-abortion movement has taken over, and it shows no signs of slowing.
- Religious Men Can Be Devoted Dads, Too
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/opinion/sunday/happy-marriages.html
Faith, like feminism, sets high expectations for husbands.
- The Suburbs Are Coming to a City Near You
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/opinion/sunday/the-suburbs-cities.html
Is a city still a city if urban living is a luxury good?
- How High School Ruined Leisure
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/opinion/sunday/college-admissions-extracurriculars.html
Will kids still do what they like when it won’t help them get into college?
- How Moms and Dads Divide the Work
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/opinion/letters/moms-dads-divide-work.html
Readers offer their views of this hot-button issue, including how they have tried to find the right formula to make a partnership work.
- SAT Adversity Index: A Drive Toward Diversity Without Discussing Race
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/us/sat-adversity-race.html
The College Board, which administers the SAT, is joining a broadening movement toward using race-neutral alternatives to affirmative action.
- To reform the credit card industry, start with credit scores
Capping credit card interest rates could do more harm than good. Instead, let’s reform credit scores.
- The Problem With the SAT’s Idea of Objectivity
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/05/college-board-sat-adversity-score/589681/
Faced with the messy realities of entrenched privilege, the College Board is trying to find a quantitative solution.
- The Abortion Fight and the Pretense of Precedent
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/27/the-abortion-fight-and-the-pretense-of-precedent
State legislators have proposed Draconian new laws on the assumption that, when they come before the Supreme Court, they will be used to vanquish Roe v. Wade once and for all.
- Second Chance: Life without Student Debt
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25810
Does a significant student debt burden force you to earn more money, just so that you can repay your loans? Or does it just keep you stuck in a suboptimal job, when you might be able to earn more elsewhere? The answer seems to be the latter.
- 16-Year-Olds Want a Vote. Fifty Years Ago, So Did 18-Year-Olds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/us/politics/voting-age.html
In 1969, three college students in New Jersey built a network of 10,000 volunteers to lower the voting age. Now, campaigns are sprouting up again.
- As Thousands of Taxi Drivers Were Trapped in Loans, Top Officials Counted the Money
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/nyregion/taxi-medallions.html
The government profited and looked away as thousands of immigrant taxi drivers in New York were ravaged by exploitative loans.
- ‘They Were Conned’: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/nyregion/nyc-taxis-medallions-suicides.html
Thousands of immigrants who were chasing the dream of owning a New York taxi were trapped in reckless loans by bankers who made huge profits, The Times found.
- Tech Jobs Lead to the Middle Class. Just Not for the Masses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/business/tech-jobs-middle-class.html
The great hope for people without a bachelor’s degree hasn’t yet spread beyond small-scale success stories. Training, mentoring and counseling people — often from disadvantaged backgrounds — is not a mass-production process.
- ‘Playing Catch-Up in the Game of Life.’ Millennials Approach Middle Age in Crisis
New data show they’re in worse financial shape than every preceding living generation, and may never recover. Their woes have delayed traditional adult milestones in ways expected to alter the nation’s demographic and economic contours
- The Legal Vulnerability of Roe v. Wade
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/podcasts/the-daily/supreme-court-abortion.html
We look at how the Supreme Court decision that established a constitutional right to abortion might be put to the test.
- Is Our Health Care Spending Worth It?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/upshot/actual-worth-health-care-spending.html
Putting a price on longevity or well-being is tricky, but not impossible.
- Do You Like Your First Name? Would You Change It If You Could?
Tell us the story and significance of your first name.
- Millions Take Gabapentin for Pain. But There’s Scant Evidence It Works.
“There is very little data to justify how these drugs are being used and why they should be in the top 10 in sales,” a researcher said.
- We are in the twilight years of the post-WWII baby boom
Could a wide-sweeping decline in religious beliefs be one of the underlying causes?
- What the History of Food Stamps Reveals
https://daily.jstor.org/what-the-history-of-food-stamps-reveals/
In the early years of food stamps the goal wasn’t necessarily to feed America’s poor. The idea was to buttress the price of food after the decline in crop prices had created a crisis in rural America.
- The Complicated Reality of “Sex Trafficking”
https://daily.jstor.org/the-complicated-reality-of-sex-trafficking/
Anthropologist Jennifer Musto looked at how the rise in concern about sex trafficking, particularly in regard to the domestic trafficking of underage girls, actually plays out in policing.
- French Patient in Right-to-Die Dispute Is Taken Off Life Support
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/world/europe/france-vincent-lambert-life-support.html
Vincent Lambert was left in a vegetative state after a 2008 car accident. His family has been split over whether to let doctors stop artificially feeding and hydrating him.
