CCF MEDIA BRIEF – NOVEMBER 15, 2019
CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS:
- More And More Millennials And Gen Z Are Choosing Abstinence — Here’s Why
- Goldman Sachs now offers the most generous parental-leave policy on Wall Street. But the data says men won’t take it unless a ‘daddy quota’ becomes mandatory.
NEW ON THE CCF BLOG:
- Work that Works for Low-Wage Workers
- Why No One Can “Have It All” and What to Do About It
OTHER NEWS:
- CDC: Childhood Trauma Tied to Poor Health
- Loss, trauma, and injustice: On being Black and dying from a broken heart
- What Happens to Relationships When Sex Hurts
- Having a poor relationship with your family could make you sick
- A year to clean five schools of sexism – shouldn’t others do the same?
- New Study Shows Paid Family Leave Isn’t a Silver Bullet
- What the battle over a 7-year-old trans girl could mean for families nationwide
- Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids
- Girls and Boys Are Equally Good at Math, and Children’s Brains Function Similarly Regardless of Gender: Scientific Study
- Smashing the patriarchy: why there’s nothing natural about male supremacy
- Some Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences Can Be Reversed With Positive Ones, Study Suggests
- I treat teens who attempted suicide. Here’s what they told me.
- Only children are more likely to be obese, study says
- Child sex abuse cases treated in ERs rose more than 70% in seven years, study says
- Children Who Use Screens Too Much Have Different Brain Structures, Scientists Suggest in ‘Provocative’ Study
- Why we should stop calling it ‘screen time’ to our kids
- ‘Did I inherit loneliness from my mum?’
- Signs of Dementia: 8 Tips For Talking to Your Older Parents
- So-called virginity tests are unreliable, invasive and sexist. And yet they persist
- Nearly all toddlers, and the majority of babies, eat too much added sugar in the US, study says
- How Many People Have to Die Before We’re Done With Gender Reveals?
- When Countries Get Wealthier, Kids Can Lose Out On Vaccines
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- More And More Millennials And Gen Z Are Choosing Abstinence — Here’s Why
https://www.o.school/thepulse/millennials-voluntary-abstinence?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Paid&utm_campaign=
- Goldman Sachs now offers the most generous parental-leave policy on Wall Street. But the data says men won’t take it unless a ‘daddy quota’ becomes mandatory.
https://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-parental-leave-family-support-paternity-leave-gender-equality-2019-11?IR=T
- Work that Works for Low-Wage Workers
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2019/11/12/work-that-works-for-low-wage-workers/
- Why No One Can “Have It All” and What to Do About It
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2019/11/05/why-no-one-can-have-it-all-and-what-to-do-about-it/
- CDC: Childhood Trauma Tied to Poor Health
https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2019-11-05/childhood-trauma-tied-to-poor-health-social-outcomes
Preventing adverse childhood experiences could have averted millions of cases of depression among adults in 2017, along with a multitude of other poor health outcomes.
- Loss, trauma, and injustice: On being Black and dying from a broken heart
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/11/12/20961357/marquis-jefferson-black-family-heart
The father of Atatiana Jefferson is one of too many lost to grief, trauma, and injustice.
- What Happens to Relationships When Sex Hurts
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/11/vulvodynia-painful-sex-women/601567/
Women who suffer from the chronic-pain condition vulvodynia often feel isolated from their partners. But a better medical understanding is helping.
- Having a poor relationship with your family could make you sick
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/07/health/bad-family-relationships-make-you-sick-wellness/index.html
It appears the quality of your relationships with your extended family — mom, dad, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents and more — could make a real difference in your health as you age, maybe even more than your special love.
- A year to clean five schools of sexism – shouldn’t others do the same?
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/nov/12/clean-five-schools-of-sexism-teachers-pupils-gender-equality
Experiment gets teachers and primary pupils to look at life through ‘gender equality lens’
- New Study Shows Paid Family Leave Isn’t a Silver Bullet
https://www.fatherly.com/news/paid-family-leave-california-limited-gender-roles/
Fifteen years after California passed paid family leave, not enough men are using the benefit, and the women who do make less than their counterparts.
- What the battle over a 7-year-old trans girl could mean for families nationwide
https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/11/11/20955059/luna-younger-transgender-child-custody
Legislators want to have a say in whether Luna Younger should be allowed to socially transition.
- Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/stop-trying-to-raise-successful-kids/600751/
And start raising kind ones.
- Girls and Boys Are Equally Good at Math, and Children’s Brains Function Similarly Regardless of Gender: Scientific Study
https://www.newsweek.com/girls-boys-math-children-brains-function-gender-scientific-study-1470669
“Humans are more similar to each other than we are different,” said an author of the study.
- Smashing the patriarchy: why there’s nothing natural about male supremacy
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/02/smashing-the-patriarchy-why-theres-nothing-natural-about-male-supremacy
Psychologists such as Jordan Peterson argue patriarchal society is the ‘natural order’, but it is a relatively new development, writes Gaia Vince
- Some Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences Can Be Reversed With Positive Ones, Study Suggests
https://www.newsweek.com/adverse-childhood-experiences-effects-reversed-positive-study-1470484
A report from Brigham Young University found that the negative health impacts of adverse childhood experiences can be combatted with “advantageous childhood experiences.”
- I treat teens who attempted suicide. Here’s what they told me.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/10/30/20936636/suicide-mental-health-suicidal-thoughts-teens
Suicide deaths have been rising in recent years. Thoughtful treatment is necessary.
- Only children are more likely to be obese, study says
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/06/health/only-child-obesity-connection-wellness/index.html
Only children may be at a higher risk for obesity than children who have siblings, according to a new study published Wednesday.
- Child sex abuse cases treated in ERs rose more than 70% in seven years, study says
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/04/health/child-sex-abuse-emergency-department-study/index.html
The number of US adolescents admitted to emergency rooms for injuries related to sexual abuse more than doubled between 2010 and 2016, according to a new study.
- Children Who Use Screens Too Much Have Different Brain Structures, Scientists Suggest in ‘Provocative’ Study
https://www.newsweek.com/screen-time-damage-child-brain-development-language-skills-1469223
Scientists looked at the brain wiring of a group of under-fives to reach their conclusion.
- Why we should stop calling it ‘screen time’ to our kids
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/health/screen-time-rename-parenting-house-wellness-strauss/index.html
The digital world is now vast and complicated. it’s time for our lexicon to catch up.
- ‘Did I inherit loneliness from my mum?’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50301612
Two women share their experience of loneliness and how it relates to their parents and children.
- Signs of Dementia: 8 Tips For Talking to Your Older Parents
https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/relationships/signs-of-dementia-talking-to-older-parents/
When a parent begins to exhibit early signs of dementia or Alzeimer’s, it’s difficult for families to address it. These tips will make the process easier.
- So-called virginity tests are unreliable, invasive and sexist. And yet they persist
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/09/health/virginity-tests-debunking-trnd/index.html
The comments, as soon as they made the rounds, were met with swift condemnation: Rapper T.I. says he takes his daughter to the gynecologist after each birthday to determine if she’s a virgin.
- Nearly all toddlers, and the majority of babies, eat too much added sugar in the US, study says
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/health/infant-toddler-added-sugar-wellness/index.html
A new study found that 98% of toddlers and 61% of infants 6 to 11 months old have too much added sugar in their diets, mostly due to yogurt and fruit drinks.
- How Many People Have to Die Before We’re Done With Gender Reveals?
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/11/gender-reveal-disasters/601801/
Sadly, this is not a hypothetical question.
- When Countries Get Wealthier, Kids Can Lose Out On Vaccines
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/11/12/778549922/when-countries-get-wealthier-kids-can-lose-out-on-vaccines?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=health
Childhood vaccines are often subsidized in the poorest countries. But not for those moving up the wealth ladder.
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