Council on Contemporary Families

CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, July 23, 2019

CCF Briefing

  1. Why Midsize Cities Struggle to Catch Up to Superstar Cities
  2. A Prosperous China Says ‘Men Preferred,’ and Women Lose
  3. A Better Way to Manage Your Period? Try the Menstrual Cup, Scientists Say
  4. Where Segregation Persists, Trouble Persists
  5. To Make It to the Moon, Women Have to Escape Earth’s Gender Bias
  6. Do Service Dogs Help Treat PTSD? After Years of Research, the V.A. Still Doesn’t Know
  7. Google Glass May Have an Afterlife as a Device to Teach Autistic Children
  8. The Problems With Risk Assessment Tools
  9. Intensive Anti-H.I.V. Efforts Meet With Mixed Success in Africa
  10. Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery.
  11. The Hidden Winners in Neighborhood Gentrification
  12.  ‘The Freedom of My 50s Is Amazing’: Women Share Stories of Midlife Reinvention
  13. After years of ‘glacial’ change, women now hold more than 1 in 4 corporate board seats
  14. Thank God it’s Thursday: the four-day workweek some want to bring to the U.S.
  15. We Need a Separate Visa to Protect L.G.B.T.Q. Asylum Seekers
  16. The Future of the City Is Childless
  17. No More Manholes in Berkeley as City Writes Gender Out of Codes
  18. When the Law Says Using Marijuana Is O.K., but the Boss Disagrees
  19. Would You Let the Man Who Killed Your Sister Out of Prison?
  20. Don’t Put All Your (Frozen) Eggs in One Basket
  21. As America Debates Abortion, Hollywood Seeks the Realities
  22. State and Local Taxes Are Worsening Inequality
  23. The Ridiculous Fantasy of a ‘No Drama’ Relationship
  24. FaceApp and the Savage Shock of Aging
  25. White Anxiety, and a President Ready to Address It
  26. E.P.A. Won’t Ban Chlorpyrifos, Pesticide Tied to Children’s Health Problems
  27. The Quiet Cruelty of When Harry Met Sally
  28. States must abolish juvenile fees. They’re putting families in debt.
  29. Lots of college students drop out. There are degrees of success in preventing it.
  30. A Clue to the Reason for Women’s Pervasive Car-Safety Problem
  31. Where Roe v. Wade Has the Biggest Effect
  32. What can we do to reduce unplanned pregnancies?
  33. Gun Ownership Rates Tied to Domestic Homicides, but Not Other Killings, Study Finds
  34. She Didn’t Act Like a Rape Victim
  35. Age Discrimination Is Hard to Prove, Even Harder to Fix
  36. The Judge and Jury Agreed I Didn’t Kill Anyone. So Why Did I Just Serve 16 Years for Murder?
  37. Saudi Guardianship Laws Could Be Set to Change. Here’s How Women Are Reacting.
  38. A Peculiarly Dutch Summer Rite: Children Abandoned in the Night Woods
  39. White Anxiety, and a President Ready to Address It
  40. What Happens When Parents Wait to Tell a Child He’s Adopted

 

  1. Why Midsize Cities Struggle to Catch Up to Superstar Cities

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/business/economy/winston-salem-convergence.html

For decades, smaller metropolitan areas closed the income gap with bigger, richer ones, but no longer. So places like Winston-Salem, N.C., are trying to lay a new foundation for prosperity.

 

  1. A Prosperous China Says ‘Men Preferred,’ and Women Lose

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/world/asia/china-women-discrimination.html

Gender is now one of the most important factors behind income inequality in China, where workplace discrimination and court rulings have set women back.

 

  1. A Better Way to Manage Your Period? Try the Menstrual Cup, Scientists Say

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/health/menstrual-cup-periods-women.html

The reusable, bell-like devices unfold in the vagina to stanch menstrual flow. They are as effective as sanitary pads and tampons, according to a new analysis — and less expensive.

 

  1. Where Segregation Persists, Trouble Persists

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/opinion/integration-politics.html

Integration works, but how do we get it to fly in the face of white intransigence?

 

  1. To Make It to the Moon, Women Have to Escape Earth’s Gender Bias

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/science/women-astronauts-nasa.html

The Apollo program was designed by men, for men. But NASA can learn from its failures as it aims to send women to the moon and beyond.

 

  1. Do Service Dogs Help Treat PTSD? After Years of Research, the V.A. Still Doesn’t Know

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/magazine/service-dogs-veterans-ptsd.html

The V.A. was mandated to study the use of service dogs as a mental-health treatment for veterans almost a decade ago. But repeated setbacks have held up the results.

 

  1. Google Glass May Have an Afterlife as a Device to Teach Autistic Children

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/technology/google-glass-device-treat-autism.html

Privacy concerns caused the computerized eyewear to fail with the general public. But researchers believe it could help autistic children learn to recognize emotion and make eye contact.

 

  1. The Problems With Risk Assessment Tools

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/opinion/pretrial-ai.html

They give recommendations that make future violence seem more predictable than it is.

 

  1. Intensive Anti-H.I.V. Efforts Meet With Mixed Success in Africa

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/health/hiv-testing-treatment-africa.html

Scientists tested a costly approach to curbing the AIDS epidemic: Test everyone in the community, and treat anyone who is infected.

 

  1. Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery.

https://features.propublica.org/black-land-loss/heirs-property-rights-why-black-families-lose-land-south/

The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.

 

  1. The Hidden Winners in Neighborhood Gentrification

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/07/gentrification-effects-neighborhood-data-economic-statistics/594064/

A new study claims the effects of neighborhood change on original lower-income residents are largely positive, despite fears of spiking rents and displacement.

 

  1.  ‘The Freedom of My 50s Is Amazing’: Women Share Stories of Midlife Reinvention

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-freedom-of-my-50s-is-amazing-women-share-stories-of-midlife-reinvention-11563370767

A Wall Street Journal article about women forging new paths in middle age prompts an outpouring of reader response

 

  1. After years of ‘glacial’ change, women now hold more than 1 in 4 corporate board seats

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/07/17/after-years-glacial-change-women-now-hold-more-than-corporate-board-seats/

 

  1. Thank God it’s Thursday: the four-day workweek some want to bring to the U.S.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/07/11/thank-god-its-thursday-four-day-work-week-some-want-bring-us/

 

  1. We Need a Separate Visa to Protect L.G.B.T.Q. Asylum Seekers

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/opinion/lgbtq-africa-asylum.html

L.G.B.T.Q. Africans are funneled into a system that exposes them to the same persecutory treatment they sought to escape.

 

  1. The Future of the City Is Childless

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/where-have-all-the-children-gone/594133

America’s urban rebirth is missing something key—actual births.

 

  1. No More Manholes in Berkeley as City Writes Gender Out of Codes

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/us/berkeley-gender-ban.html

Berkeley’s City Council this week voted to purge gender pronouns from its municipal code. He or she will be banished in favor of they, even if referring to one person.

 

  1. When the Law Says Using Marijuana Is O.K., but the Boss Disagrees

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/marijuana-employer-drug-tests.html

The relatively rapid acceptance of marijuana use in the United States has lawmakers and employers grappling with ways to adjust hiring rules.

 

  1. Would You Let the Man Who Killed Your Sister Out of Prison?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/us/violent-crime-ohio-prison.html

Rolling back mass incarceration requires new approaches to those who have committed violence. In Ohio, that has meant some hard conversations.

 

  1. Don’t Put All Your (Frozen) Eggs in One Basket

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/style/modern-love-egg-freezing-fertility.html

With “fertility preservation,” I thought I could have children on my own timeline. I was wrong.

 

  1. As America Debates Abortion, Hollywood Seeks the Realities

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/arts/abortion-hollywood.html

Series and films depicting abortion in a matter-of-fact way have markedly increased, a scholar finds. Writers say they’re showing what they know.

 

  1. State and Local Taxes Are Worsening Inequality

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/opinion/sunday/inequality-taxes.html

Most states lean heavily on lower-income families. An Illinois referendum is a step toward correcting the problem.

 

  1. The Ridiculous Fantasy of a ‘No Drama’ Relationship

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/opinion/sunday/tinder-bumble-okcupid-drama.html

Online, that’s what men say they want from women. Do they know nothing about life?

 

  1. FaceApp and the Savage Shock of Aging

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/opinion/sunday/faceapp-aging-old.html

In the mirror is someone we never thought we’d become.

 

  1. White Anxiety, and a President Ready to Address It

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/upshot/white-anxiety-trump.html

Evidence of concern about demographic and cultural shifts is not new. What’s different is the willingness to politicize it openly.

 

  1. E.P.A. Won’t Ban Chlorpyrifos, Pesticide Tied to Children’s Health Problems

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/climate/epa-chlorpyrifos-pesticide-ban.html

The decision not to prohibit the pesticide, which has been linked to developmental disabilities, comes after years of legal wrangling.

 

  1. The Quiet Cruelty of When Harry Met Sally

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/07/when-harry-met-sally-and-the-high-maintenance-woman/594382/

The classic rom-com invented the “high-maintenance” woman. Thirty years later, its reductive diagnosis lives on.

 

  1. States must abolish juvenile fees. They’re putting families in debt.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/states-must-abolish-juvenile-fees-theyre-putting-families-in-debt/2019/07/19/d5e0e2b0-a8db-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html

 

  1. Lots of college students drop out. There are degrees of success in preventing it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/lots-of-college-students-drop-out-there-are-degrees-of-success-in-preventing-it/2019/07/18/bc494fb0-a816-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html

 

  1. A Clue to the Reason for Women’s Pervasive Car-Safety Problem

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/07/car-accident-injury-safety-women-dummy-seatbelt/594049

Crash-test dummies are typically models of an average man. Women are 73 percent more likely to be injured in a car accident. These things are probably connected.

 

  1. Where Roe v. Wade Has the Biggest Effect

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/18/upshot/roe-v-wade-abortion-maps-planned-parenthood.html

If Roe v. Wade were overturned, the number of abortions would fall in these places.

 

  1. What can we do to reduce unplanned pregnancies?

https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/what-can-we-do-to-reduce-unplanned-pregnancies

 

  1. Gun Ownership Rates Tied to Domestic Homicides, but Not Other Killings, Study Finds

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/us/gun-ownership-violence-statistics.html

“It is women, in particular, who are bearing the burden of this increased gun ownership,” the lead author of the study said.

 

  1. She Didn’t Act Like a Rape Victim

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/opinion/armed-forces-rape.html

Rape victims must yell, cry and fight, says the Army that trained us for years to be silent, strong and obedient.

 

  1. Age Discrimination Is Hard to Prove, Even Harder to Fix

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/health/age-discrimination-legal.html

Even when plaintiffs win their suits, correcting institutional biases can take years.

 

  1. The Judge and Jury Agreed I Didn’t Kill Anyone. So Why Did I Just Serve 16 Years for Murder?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/opinion/felony-murder-rule-adnan-khan.html

It’s thanks to an arcane legal doctrine that’s been ditched everywhere — except the United States.

 

  1. Saudi Guardianship Laws Could Be Set to Change. Here’s How Women Are Reacting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/world/middleeast/saudi-guardianship-women-react.html

The government is said to be considering a revision to laws that require women to get the permission of a male guardian to marry, apply for a passport or travel out of the country.

 

  1. A Peculiarly Dutch Summer Rite: Children Abandoned in the Night Woods

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/world/europe/netherlands-dropping-children.html

It may sound extreme, but it’s normal in the Netherlands.

 

  1. White Anxiety, and a President Ready to Address It

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/upshot/white-anxiety-trump.html

Evidence of concern about demographic and cultural shifts is not new. What’s different is the willingness to politicize it openly.

 

  1. What Happens When Parents Wait to Tell a Child He’s Adopted

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/07/adoption-disclosure-study/594496

A new study suggests that learning about one’s own adoption after a certain age could lead to lower life satisfaction in the future.

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