Council on Contemporary Families

CCF’s Weekly Media Roundup by Steve Mintz, July 27, 2019

CCF Briefing

  1. Laboratories of democracy: what Seattle learned from having the highest minimum wage in the nation
  2. How Illinois Became an Abortion-Rights Haven
  3. The cost of bail for immigrants is surging
  4. Domestic Violence Needs Criminal Justice Reform, Too
  5. Who Still Calls it a ‘Glass Ceiling?’ Not the 6 Women Running for President
  6. U.S. Couple Sues State Dept. Over Policy Denying Their Baby Citizenship
  7. Why there’s a decline in US teen employment
  8. What the research says about white supremacy
  9. An Epidemic of Disbelief
  10. Step Away From the Healing Crystals
  11. What It Means to Be a Bad Mom
  12. Restoring the Marriage Ecosystem
  13. The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs
  14. THE INCREDIBLE SUCCESS STORY BEHIND ONE COUNTY’S PLUMMETING DIVORCE RATE SHOULD INSPIRE US ALL
  15. Here’s Why We’ve Failed to Figure Out Why Infrastructure Costs So Much
  16. Has College Gotten Too Easy?
  17. Why disabled Americans remain second-class citizens
  18.  The Al Franken Case
  19. A Slow-Moving Storm: Why Demographic Changes Mean Tough Challenges for College Leaders
  20. What’s happening in ‘Orange Is the New Black’ is happening to real women behind bars
  21. WHAT’S NEXT FOR WEDDINGS: PHONE-FREE MOMENTS AND FAR-FLUNG LOCALES
  22. An Appeal for a Grade Change, a Lifetime Later
  23. In Politics, Apologies Are for Losers
  24. At a Clinic Threatened by Trump’s Rules, She Asks, ‘Why Attack Women?’
  25. It’s Not Just a Chemical Imbalance
  26. Breaking a Mexican Tradition That Excludes Women, to Keep It Alive in Brooklyn
  27. This Is an Article About Women
  28. The ‘Glass Ceiling’ Is Tired. Women Are ‘Reinventing the Game.’
  29. What to Know When Choosing Cremation
  30. Where I Find Romance in Marriage
  31. Doctors in Debt: These Physicians Gladly Struck a Deal With California
  32. The Best (and Worst) Places to Retire
  33. What Americans Know About Religion — And What They Don’t
  34. You Are What You Watch? The Social Effects of TV
  35. Jeffrey Epstein, R. Kelly and a Change in How Prosecutors Look at Sexual Assault
  36. Need a Mental Health Day? Some States Give Students the Option
  37. The Fight Over Planned Parenthood’s Future
  38. When Grandparents Help Hold It All Together
  39. Saudi Guardianship Laws Could Be Set to Change. Here’s How Women Are Reacting.
  40. A Peculiarly Dutch Summer Rite: Children Abandoned in the Night Woods

 

  1. Laboratories of democracy: what Seattle learned from having the highest minimum wage in the nation

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/7/13/20690266/seattle-minimum-wage-15-dollars

The city adopted a $15 minimum wage four years ago. Here’s what happened.

 

  1. How Illinois Became an Abortion-Rights Haven

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/how-illinois-became-an-abortion-rights-haven

 

  1. The cost of bail for immigrants is surging

https://www.axios.com/immigrant-bail-bonds-costs-rising-ice-judges-2e3a06b6-9802-4157-a282-ac9e9587a10d.html

 

  1. Domestic Violence Needs Criminal Justice Reform, Too

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/opinion/domestic-violence-criminal-justice-reform-too.html

The criminal justice system isn’t stopping intimate partner violence. It might be making it worse.

 

  1. Who Still Calls it a ‘Glass Ceiling?’ Not the 6 Women Running for President

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/us/politics/glass-ceiling-female-candidates-2020.html

‘Shake the table.’ ‘Break things.’ ‘Persist.’ These are the metaphors of a new generation of political candidates.

 

  1. U.S. Couple Sues State Dept. Over Policy Denying Their Baby Citizenship

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/us/state-department-assisted-reproductive-citizenship.html

An American couple’s daughter, who was born abroad with the help of a surrogate, was denied citizenship. Her parents, two gay men, are suing for discrimination.

 

  1. Why there’s a decline in US teen employment

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/economics/jobs/minimum-wage-teen-employment-decline

A new study explores three factors that help explain the decades-long decline in U.S. teen employment: minimum-wage increases, higher wages resulting from finishing high school and a higher share of “low-skilled” immigrants from Spanish-speaking regions, who, according to the authors, tend to compete for similar jobs.

 

  1. What the research says about white supremacy

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/race-society/white-supremacy-research-cyber-racism

We’ve gathered and summarized a sampling of studies that look at white supremacy and right-wing organizations from multiple angles, including their online strategies for spreading hate and how they use genetic ancestry tests.

 

  1. An Epidemic of Disbelief

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/an-epidemic-of-disbelief/592807

What new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them.

 

  1. Step Away From the Healing Crystals

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/parenting/natural-parenting-alternative-medicine.html

Parents are turning to alternative medicine for understandable reasons, but a healthy dose of skepticism can go a long way.

 

  1. What It Means to Be a Bad Mom

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/07/sharon-lambs-not-good-enough-mother/594502/

Inside the mind of a psychologist who helps determine whether parents are “good enough” to keep their children

 

  1. Restoring the Marriage Ecosystem

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/08/12/restoring-the-marriage-ecosystem/

Discusses the economic, social, and cultural factors that have contributed to a weakening of the institution of marriage.

 

  1. The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/hottest-chat-app-teens-google-docs/584857

How a writing tool became the new default way to pass notes in class

 

  1. THE INCREDIBLE SUCCESS STORY BEHIND ONE COUNTY’S PLUMMETING DIVORCE RATE SHOULD INSPIRE US ALL

https://www.newsweek.com/incredible-success-story-behind-one-countys-plummeting-divorce-rate-should-inspire-us-all-1451188

Divorce rates in Duval County, Florida—which includes the fourth-biggest city in the state, Jacksonville—experienced a stunning 28 percent plunge between 2015 and 2017

 

  1. Here’s Why We’ve Failed to Figure Out Why Infrastructure Costs So Much

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/why-we-cant-figure-out-why-infrastructure-is-so-expensive.html

Why are U.S. infrastructure projects so expensive and what could be done to make them cheaper?

 

  1. Has College Gotten Too Easy?

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/07/has-college-gotten-easier/594550/

Time spent studying is down, but GPAs are up.

 

  1. Why disabled Americans remain second-class citizens

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/07/23/why-disabled-americans-remain-second-class-citizens/

The big hole in our civil rights laws.

 

  1.  The Al Franken Case

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/opinion/al-franken-sexual-harassment-mayer.html

It’s a difficult one. But Democrats got it wrong.

 

  1. A Slow-Moving Storm: Why Demographic Changes Mean Tough Challenges for College Leaders

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-04-17-a-slow-moving-storm-why-demographic-changes-mean-tough-challenges-for-college-leaders

 

  1. What’s happening in ‘Orange Is the New Black’ is happening to real women behind bars

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/whats-happening-in-orange-is-the-new-black-is-happening-to-to-real-women-behind-bars/2019/07/25/9fa0f94c-aef3-11e9-8e77-03b30bc29f64_story.html

We must end the failed policies and bad laws that made the show possible.

 

  1. WHAT’S NEXT FOR WEDDINGS: PHONE-FREE MOMENTS AND FAR-FLUNG LOCALES

https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-next-for-weddings-phone-free-moments-and-far-flung-locales-11564063053

Shan-Lyn Ma, the co-founder and chief executive of the online wedding business Zola Inc., discusses the future of proposals, gift-giving and ceremonies

 

  1. An Appeal for a Grade Change, a Lifetime Later

https://humanparts.medium.com/an-appeal-for-a-grade-change-a-lifetime-later-3ab618eb8edb

After 2 children and 45 years of marriage, I would like to appeal my C grade in ‘Marriage and the Family’

 

  1. In Politics, Apologies Are for Losers

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/opinion/sunday/when-should-a-politician-apologize.html

At least that’s what the numbers say.

 

  1. At a Clinic Threatened by Trump’s Rules, She Asks, ‘Why Attack Women?’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/opinion/sunday/women-health-trump.html

A septuagenarian male president imposed regulations that cut health services for women.

 

  1. It’s Not Just a Chemical Imbalance

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/opinion/sunday/its-not-just-a-chemical-imbalance.html

Thinking of my mental illness as preordained missed many of the causes of — and solutions to — my emotional suffering.

 

  1. Breaking a Mexican Tradition That Excludes Women, to Keep It Alive in Brooklyn

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/nyregion/mexican-dance-tecuanes.html

Women and girls are performing “la danza de los tecuanes” — the dance of the jaguars — to honor their Mexican ancestry.

 

  1. This Is an Article About Women

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/opinion/women-feminist-tshirts.html

In 2019, simple proclamations of womanhood are more popular than ever. But what, exactly, do they achieve?

 

  1. The ‘Glass Ceiling’ Is Tired. Women Are ‘Reinventing the Game.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/us/women-glass-ceiling-persist.html

Let’s talk about the linguistics of gender and racial bias.

 

  1. What to Know When Choosing Cremation

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/your-money/funeral-cremation-burial.html

A funeral industry report says demand for cremation is increasing, in part because it’s less expensive than burial. It has also become more socially acceptable.

 

  1. Where I Find Romance in Marriage

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/style/modern-love-romance-marriage-amnesia.html

It took my mother’s short-term amnesia to make me realize what long-term love is all about.

 

  1. Doctors in Debt: These Physicians Gladly Struck a Deal With California

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/health/california-medical-student-loans.html

The state is providing up to $300,000 in debt relief for doctors who agree to accept Medicaid. The grant has lifted “an emotional burden,” one recipient said, adding, “I can focus on my patients.”

 

  1. The Best (and Worst) Places to Retire

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/realestate/the-best-and-worst-places-to-retire.html

A recent study ranked the 50 states based on the what’s important to older adults.

 

  1. What Americans Know About Religion — And What They Don’t

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-americans-know-about-religion-and-what-they-dont/

The Pew Research Center asked Americans 32 multiple-choice questions about religion and spirituality earlier this year. The quiz — which you can still take — included questions such as, “What is commemorated on Easter Sunday?”

 

  1. You Are What You Watch? The Social Effects of TV

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/upshot/social-effects-television.html

There’s new evidence that viewing habits can affect your thinking, political preferences, even cognitive ability.

 

  1. Jeffrey Epstein, R. Kelly and a Change in How Prosecutors Look at Sexual Assault

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/nyregion/epstein-kelly-metoo-sex-charges.html

The #MeToo Movement is starting to shift attitudes within courts, prosecutors’ offices and, crucially, among victims.

 

  1. Need a Mental Health Day? Some States Give Students the Option

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/health/oregon-mental-health-days.html

An expert called the laws in both Utah and Oregon a “win” and said students who are “quietly suffering” from mental illness will benefit most.

 

  1. The Fight Over Planned Parenthood’s Future

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/podcasts/the-daily/abortion-planned-parenthood-leana-wen.html

The ousted president of the organization says it should focus on health care, not politics. But others say it doesn’t yet have that luxury.

 

  1. When Grandparents Help Hold It All Together

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/well/family/when-grandparents-help-hold-it-all-together.html

Sociologists use the term “intensive grandparenting” to refer to a commitment to providing regular child care, often accompanied by housekeeping or other tasks.

 

  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.

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