Council on Contemporary Families

CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, July 8, 2019

CCF Briefing

  1. Aid in Dying Soon Will be Available to More Americans. Few Will Choose It.
  2. Girl on a Red Dirt Road
  3. A ‘Second Chance’ After 27 Years in Prison: How Criminal Justice Helped an Ex-Inmate Graduate
  4. The Challenge of Caring for a Stroke Patient
  5. Employee Activism Is Alive in Tech. It Stops Short of Organizing Unions.
  6. When ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is Invoked in the Abortion Debate
  7. Reversing the Damage of a Massive Stroke
  8. HPV Vaccines Are Reducing Infections, Warts — and Probably Cancer
  9. Judge Gets Threats After Saying Teenager in Rape Case Was From ‘Good Family’
  10. Kirsten Gillibrand Is 2020’s Misfit
  11. I Like Working Retail. Why Am I Too Ashamed to Say So?
  12. A New Deal for Caregiving
  13. New Sex Drug for Women to Improve Low Libido Is Approved
  14. Veterans Agency to Offer New Depression Drug, Despite Cost and Safety Concerns
  15. Computer Science Research Gender Gap Won’t Close for 100 Years
  16. Students of Color are More Likely to Be Arrested in School. That May Change.
  17. How Goes the Behavior-Change Revolution?
  18. Getting an Invite to the Libido Party
  19. Boarding Now: Parents of Children With Nut Allergies
  20. Julia Serano: The Science of Gender Is Rarely Simple
  21. The Court Cases That Changed L.G.B.T.Q. Rights
  22. Rent Laws’ Impact: Tenant Paradise or Return of the ‘Bronx Is Burning’?
  23. How to End a Friendship
  24. A New Father’s Plight
  25. I Used Google Ads for Social Engineering. It Worked.
  26. A New Approach on Housing Affordability
  27. An Online Preschool Closes a Gap but Exposes Another
  28. ‘This Is Quite Gay!’
  29. What Bipolar II Feels Like
  30.  ‘Do You Support Busing?’ Is Not the Best Question
  31. What to Expect When You’re Expecting Evil
  32. Now Some Families Are Hiring Coaches to Help Them Raise Phone-Free Children
  33. A Privileged Teenager Is Treated Gently by a Judge. It’s a Familiar Story.
  34. Saving for a Future Complicated by the Loss of Sight and Sound
  35. Norway Politician Forced Sex on Asylum Seekers, Court Finds
  36. Will Gen-Z Save the World?
  37. Striking a Balance Between Work and Family
  38. Belief in Bootstraps Is Strongest Where Pulling Up Is Toughest
  39. What Do Teenagers Need? Ask the Family Dog
  40. Inside an Amazon Warehouse, Robots’ Ways Rub Off on Humans
  41. Why Are Pregnant Women So Sweaty?
  42. Growing Up Ethan
  43. College-Educated Women Are the Workplace Majority, but Still Don’t Get Their Share
  44. Should We All Take the Slow Road to Love?
  45. Alabama Isn’t the Only State That Punishes Pregnant Women
  46. Minority Women Are Winning the Jobs Race in a Record Economic Expansion
  47. In France, Debates About the Veil Hide a Long History
  48. Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii
  49. The Myriad Meanings of a Pregnancy
  50. Conquering More Than the Usual Worries at Summer Camp
  51. Five Tips on Managing the ‘Boomerang Generation’
  52. Is Morality Hard-Wired Into Our Brains?
  53. ‘Three Women’ Takes a Long, Close Look at Sex Lives
  54. From Schizophrenia to Megalomania, Three New Books on Mental Illness
  55. California Poised to Become First State to Ban Discrimination Based on Natural Hair
  56. ‘Everybody Ain’t Surfing This Rainbow Wave’: Class Divisions in Gay Rights
  57. I’ve Picked My Job Over My Kids
  58. 50 Years After Stonewall
  59. The Never-Ending Mistreatment of Black Patients
  60.  Should We Call Detention Centers Concentration Camps?

 

  1. Aid in Dying Soon Will be Available to More Americans. Few Will Choose It.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/health/aid-in-dying-states.html

By October, more than one in five U.S. adults will be able to obtain lethal prescriptions if terminally ill. But for those who try, obstacles remain.

  1. Girl on a Red Dirt Road

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/opinion/growing-up-girls.html

Part of growing up is learning that the safest place you know in the world has never been safe at all.

  1. A ‘Second Chance’ After 27 Years in Prison: How Criminal Justice Helped an Ex-Inmate Graduate

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/us/politics/criminal-justice-education.html

Maurice Smith’s graduation from Goucher College illustrates the potential of a bipartisan effort to overhaul the criminal justice system.

  1. The Challenge of Caring for a Stroke Patient

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/well/live/stroke-patient-caregiver.html

A young woman’s struggle to help a husband whose brain was suddenly scrambled.

  1. Employee Activism Is Alive in Tech. It Stops Short of Organizing Unions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/technology/tech-companies-union-organizing.html

Efforts to form unions at several smaller tech companies have stalled, showing the limits of how far a wave of employee activism can go.

  1. When ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is Invoked in the Abortion Debate

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/us/black-abortion-missouri.html

For some black ministers, abortion is both wrong and understandable. “I cannot guilt her,” one pastor said of his discussions with black women considering ending their pregnancies.

  1. Reversing the Damage of a Massive Stroke

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/well/live/reversing-the-damage-of-a-massive-stroke.html

For one patient, a decade of recovery took determination, persistence and the courage to weather repeated setbacks.

  1. HPV Vaccines Are Reducing Infections, Warts — and Probably Cancer

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/health/hpv-vaccine-warts-cancer.html

An analysis covering 66 million young people has found plummeting rates of precancerous lesions and genital warts after vaccination against the human papillomavirus.

  1. Judge Gets Threats After Saying Teenager in Rape Case Was From ‘Good Family’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/nyregion/judge-james-troiano.html

Judge James Troiano’s comments sparked a nationwide outcry; now he’s receiving threats and being called upon to resign.

  1. Kirsten Gillibrand Is 2020’s Misfit

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/kirsten-gillibrand-is-2020s-misfit/

The second article in a series exploring the way that the female candidates in the 2020 race are navigating questions of identity, sexism and public critique.

  1. I Like Working Retail. Why Am I Too Ashamed to Say So?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/26/business/work-friend.html

Class anxieties and ungenerous colleagues can make good work situations feel bad. Here’s how to address both.

  1. A New Deal for Caregiving

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/opinion/universal-family-care-caregiving.html

How Universal Family Care could help families throughout their lives.

  1. New Sex Drug for Women to Improve Low Libido Is Approved

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/health/vyleesi-libido-women.html

The treatment involves an injectable pen and can cause nausea. Only one other ‘Viagra for women’ therapy is on the market.

  1. Veterans Agency to Offer New Depression Drug, Despite Cost and Safety Concerns

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/health/ketamine-depression-veterans.html

The agency is struggling to contain rising rates of suicide among veterans.

  1. Computer Science Research Gender Gap Won’t Close for 100 Years

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/technology/gender-gap-tech-computer-science.html

Women and men are forecast to produce a similar volume of medical research by 2048, according to a new study. In computer science, that won’t happen until 2137.

  1. Students of Color are More Likely to Be Arrested in School. That May Change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/nyregion/new-york-schools-police.html

New York City’s new discipline code could have an immediate impact.

  1. How Goes the Behavior-Change Revolution?

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/live-philadelphia/

An all-star team of behavioral scientists discovers that humans are stubborn (and lazy, and sometimes dumber than dogs).

 

  1. Getting an Invite to the Libido Party

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/well/getting-an-invite-to-the-libido-party.html

A checklist of issues that may be interfering with your sexual drive, and what you can do to help.

  1. Boarding Now: Parents of Children With Nut Allergies

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/health/nut-allergies-airlines.html

Airlines must permit some parents — or passengers with nut allergies themselves — to preboard in order to wipe down seats, federal regulators said.

  1. Julia Serano: The Science of Gender Is Rarely Simple

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/julia-serano-gender-science-lgbtq.html

A biologist and trans woman finds that sexuality and gender are rarely as straightforward

  1. The Court Cases That Changed L.G.B.T.Q. Rights

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/legal-history-lgbtq-rights-timeline.html

From gay marriage to gender identity, a timeline of the legal battles that have shaped L.G.B.T.Q. rights.

  1. Rent Laws’ Impact: Tenant Paradise or Return of the ‘Bronx Is Burning’?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/nyregion/rent-regulation-nyc.html

The Bronx could be the epicenter for the rent regulation overhaul, and there are two starkly different visions of how it will play out.

  1. How to End a Friendship

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/opinion/sunday/how-to-end-a-friendship.html

The rules governing romantic love are clearer. But few relationships are meant to last forever.

  1. A New Father’s Plight

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/opinion/letters/fathers-sleep-testosterone.html

A reader cites what he says is the real reason for men’s changing metabolism.

  1. I Used Google Ads for Social Engineering. It Worked.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/opinion/google-ads.html

Ad campaigns that manipulate searchers’ behavior are frighteningly easy for anyone to run.

  1. A New Approach on Housing Affordability

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/opinion/affordable-housing-construction.html

Some Democratic presidential candidates are emphasizing the need to build more housing. That could make a big difference.

  1. An Online Preschool Closes a Gap but Exposes Another

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/07/technology/preschool-online-waterford-upstart.html

It is not a program for children of the rich. It is geared to lower-income families who have fewer prekindergarten options.

  1. ‘This Is Quite Gay!’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/opinion/sunday/social-media-homophobia.html

Social media has become a space where my own family and friends have turned into censors, denigrating me for being gay from thousands of miles away.

  1. What Bipolar II Feels Like

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/opinion/sunday/bipolar-bassey-ikpi-book.html

Imagine if you didn’t fit in anywhere, not even in your own head.

  1.  ‘Do You Support Busing?’ Is Not the Best Question

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/upshot/busing-housing-segregation-democratic-primary.html

Issues of educational inequality raised by a 1970s-era practice remain relevant today, but language can obscure what’s really at stake.

  1. What to Expect When You’re Expecting Evil

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/books/horror-fiction-motherhood-helen-phillips.html

Literary fiction is increasingly borrowing from the horror genre to explore the fears and anxieties of modern motherhood.

  1. Now Some Families Are Hiring Coaches to Help Them Raise Phone-Free Children

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/06/style/parenting-coaches-screen-time-phones.html

Screen consultants are here to help you remember life before smartphones and tablets. (Spoiler: get a dog!)

  1. A Privileged Teenager Is Treated Gently by a Judge. It’s a Familiar Story.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/us/rich-privilege-courts.html

A Stanford swimmer convicted of sex assault. An elite student involved in “senior salute.” A claim of “affluenza.” The infuriating yet familiar cases setting off anger at the criminal justice system.

  1. Saving for a Future Complicated by the Loss of Sight and Sound

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/business/retirement-planning-disabled-deaf-blind.html

Blind and deaf Americans, who are in the labor force at lower rates than the able-bodied, have sued large financial institutions to try to remove the obstacles to managing their money.

  1. Norway Politician Forced Sex on Asylum Seekers, Court Finds

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/world/europe/norway-refugees-svein-ludvigsen-sex-charges.html

Svein Ludvigsen, a former fisheries minister and regional governor, was sentenced to five years in prison for exploiting his power, forcing three young men from Asia and Africa to have sex with him.

  1. Will Gen-Z Save the World?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/opinion/gen-z-boomers.html

The revolt against Boomer morality.

  1. Striking a Balance Between Work and Family

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/opinion/letters/women-work-family-balance.html

Readers react strongly to an essay by a lawyer whose job comes first.

  1. Belief in Bootstraps Is Strongest Where Pulling Up Is Toughest

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/business/economy/social-mobility-south.html

Moving from poverty to wealth from one generation to the next is least likely in the South, but optimism there is greatest, tinged with political views.

  1. What Do Teenagers Need? Ask the Family Dog

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/well/family/teenagers-pets-dogs.html

Pets provide comforts that seem tailor-made for the stresses of normal adolescent development.

  1. Inside an Amazon Warehouse, Robots’ Ways Rub Off on Humans

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/business/economy/amazon-warehouse-labor-robots.html

A machine-dominated workplace can make employees more mechanical themselves. But there is room for initiative, and small acts of rebellion.

  1. Why Are Pregnant Women So Sweaty?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/parenting/pregnancy-sweat.html

The reason you may have prenatal and postpartum night sweats — and what to do about them.

  1. Growing Up Ethan

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/opinion/autism.html

How do you find independence when you’re coming of age with autism?

  1. College-Educated Women Are the Workplace Majority, but Still Don’t Get Their Share

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/us/american-workers-women-college.html

Women in the U.S. have earned more degrees for decades, but it wasn’t until this year that they edged out college-educated men in the work force. Though they still make a lot less money.

  1. Should We All Take the Slow Road to Love?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/well/family/millennials-love-relationships-marriage-dating.html

Millennials are going on fewer dates, having less sex and marrying later. Do they know something about love that the rest of us don’t?

  1. Alabama Isn’t the Only State That Punishes Pregnant Women

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/opinion/alabama-pregnant-woman-shot.html

Across the United States, pregnant women’s lives, rights and dignity matter less and less.

  1. Minority Women Are Winning the Jobs Race in a Record Economic Expansion

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/business/economy/minority-women-hispanics-jobs.html

The economic and social trends that have long kept Hispanic and black women from making job and wage gains appear to be shifting.

  1. In France, Debates About the Veil Hide a Long History

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/arts/in-france-debates-about-the-veil-hide-a-long-history.html

An exhibition steps back from the country’s obsession with Muslim women’s dress to consider the many uses of head coverings throughout history.

  1. Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/opinion/sunday/racism-hawaii.html

You can’t hold essentialist ideas about race when nearly a quarter of the population is mixed.

  1. The Myriad Meanings of a Pregnancy

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/opinion/abortion-miscarriage.html

It is not difficult to support a woman’s right to choose and to help her mourn a baby lost.

  1. Conquering More Than the Usual Worries at Summer Camp

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/well/family/children-anxiety-ocd-camp-therapy.html

At this camp, the activities are designed to help children with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders.

  1. Five Tips on Managing the ‘Boomerang Generation’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/your-money/adult-children-home-guidelines.html

Young adults are more likely to reside with their parents than previous generations did, leading to a need for guidelines on how to manage the stay.

  1. Is Morality Hard-Wired Into Our Brains?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/books/review/conscience-patricia-churchland.html

“Conscience,” by the neurophilosopher Patricia S. Churchland, traces moral behavior to early brain developments in mammals.

  1. ‘Three Women’ Takes a Long, Close Look at Sex Lives

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/books/review-three-women-lisa-taddeo.html

Lisa Taddeo spent eight years with the subjects of her book, an immersive look at a particular story of female sexuality, refracted three ways.

  1. From Schizophrenia to Megalomania, Three New Books on Mental Illness

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/books/review/marin-sardy-the-edge-of-everyday-anne-harrington-mind-fixers-tyrranical-minds-dean-haycock.html

A short list of books includes a personal memoir about a family’s struggle with schizophrenia, a history of psychiatry and an exploration of how tyrants think.

  1. California Poised to Become First State to Ban Discrimination Based on Natural Hair

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/us/natural-hair-discrimination-ban.html

The state’s Legislature approved a measure banning the form of racial discrimination. It now heads to the desk of Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat.

  1. ‘Everybody Ain’t Surfing This Rainbow Wave’: Class Divisions in Gay Rights

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/nyregion/class-divisions-gay-rights-pride.html

In the 50 years since Stonewall, incredible strides have been made. But for gay people of color, the battle for equal rights isn’t over.

  1. I’ve Picked My Job Over My Kids

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/opinion/sunday/ive-picked-my-job-over-my-kids.html

I love them beyond all reason. But sometimes my clients need me more.

  1. 50 Years After Stonewall

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/opinion/sunday/world-pride-lgbtq.html

For all the progress earned, America still fights on for L.G.B.T.Q. equality.

  1. The Never-Ending Mistreatment of Black Patients

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/opinion/sunday/hospice-end-of-life-racism.html

For most of their lives, many African-Americans don’t get enough medical care. At the end, they get too

  1.  Should We Call Detention Centers Concentration Camps?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/opinion/sunday/migrant-kids-concentration-camps.html

A better historical analog would be the internment camps of Vichy France. But that’s no compliment.

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