CCF MEDIA BRIEF – MARCH 31, 2021
NEW BRIEF REPORT FROM CCF!
- The Difference Debt Makes: College Students and Grads on How Student Debt Affects Their Life Choices – And What They Would Do Differently If It Were Forgiven
NEW ON THE BLOG
- How (Skin) Deep is Your Love?
- Across Rich Nations, Disadvantaged Children Do Better When Work-Family Balance Is a Policy Priority
- Gender, Parenting, and the Rise of Remote Work During the Pandemic: Implications for Domestic Inequality in the United States
NEW WORK BY CCF EXPERTS*
- The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19: Lessons and Reflections
- “I’m Not Gonna Put That On My Kids”: Gendered Opposition to New Public Health Initiatives
- Social Norms and Expectations about Student Loans and Family Formation
CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS
- Why doesn’t the U.S. value child care? A historic look.
- Your Pandemic Baby’s Coming Out Party
- United States In Last Freaking Place for Policies That Help Parents
- Covid singles are supposedly lonely and miserable. But some of us are thriving instead.
- This president’s mom survived a brutal abuser: She’s a genuine hero of women’s history
- The COVID-19 gender gap: What happens if women don’t return to work?
- Backlash Then, Backlash Now
- Some parents won’t vaccinate their kids against covid. Here are their reasons.
- Why having kids doesn’t necessarily make you happier, according to research
OTHER NEWS
- In the war between work and babies, work is winning
- In 25 Years, the Pay Gap Has Shrunk by Just 8 Cents
- ‘Living Paycheck to Paycheck, Living Diaper to Diaper’
- Child Care Costs as Much as College for Some Michigan Families
- U.S. Childhood Disability Rate Up in 2019 From 2008
- Video-led programme reduces behaviour problems in children as young as 12 months
- How Polyamorists and Polygamists Are Challenging Family Norms
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- The Difference Debt Makes: College Students and Grads on How Student Debt Affects Their Life Choices – And What They Would Do Differently If It Were Forgiven
https://contemporaryfamilies.org/college-student-debt-brief-report/
Recent discussions have focused on loan forgiveness as a remedy for growing student loan debt in the United States. How have their loans affected – or not affected – students’ lives? What do young adults say they would do if their loans were forgiven?
- How (Skin) Deep is Your Love?
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2021/03/16/how-skin-deep-is-your-love/
- Across Rich Nations, Disadvantaged Children Do Better When Work-Family Balance Is a Policy Priority
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2021/03/23/across-rich-nations-disadvantaged-children-do-better-when-work-family-balance-is-a-policy-priority/
- Gender, Parenting, and the Rise of Remote Work During the Pandemic: Implications for Domestic Inequality in the United States
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2021/03/30/gender-parenting-and-the-rise-of-remote-work-during-the-pandemic-implications-for-domestic-inequality-in-the-united-states/
- The Gendered Impacts of COVID-19: Lessons and Reflections
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08912432211001305
- “I’m Not Gonna Put That On My Kids”: Gendered Opposition to New Public Health Initiatives
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/tv8zw/
- Social Norms and Expectations about Student Loans and Family Formation
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soin.12416/
Social norms and expectations regarding marriage or childbearing while in debt—or with an indebted partner—may explain links between student loans and lower family formation rates.
- Why doesn’t the U.S. value child care? A historic look.
https://www.inquirer.com/news/american-child-care-racism-sexism-pandemic-20210327.html
Just as the Black Lives Matter movement has exposed the ubiquity of racism, the pandemic has laid bare the stunning paucity of opportunities for children and their parents.
- Your Pandemic Baby’s Coming Out Party
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/well/pandemic-reunions-family-distance-babies.html
Haven’t seen your family in a while? Have a grandchild you’ve never met? Visiting may be awkward at first but you can get through it.
- United States In Last Freaking Place for Policies That Help Parents
https://www.fatherly.com/news/united-states-in-last-freaking-place-for-policies-that-help-parents/
In a study of 20 developed countries and 200,000 kids, the United States ranked dead last in policies that support kids and their parents.
- Covid singles are supposedly lonely and miserable. But some of us are thriving instead.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/covid-singles-are-supposedly-lonely-miserable-some-us-are-thriving-ncna1261021
I fully acknowledge the pandemic has been an unhappy experience for plenty of single people. Here’s why the “single at heart” community feels differently.
- This president’s mom survived a brutal abuser: She’s a genuine hero of women’s history
https://www.salon.com/2021/03/21/this-presidents-mom-survived-a-brutal-abuser-shes-a-hero-of-womens-history/
Gerald Ford’s mother left her abusive husband more than a century ago — when family violence was a dark secret
- The COVID-19 gender gap: What happens if women don’t return to work?
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-covid-19-gender-gap-what-happens-if-women-dont-return-to-work/
Here are some implications of the pandemic-driven work imbalance and what long-term consequences could look like, according to experts and historians.
- Backlash Then, Backlash Now
https://daily.jstor.org/backlash-then-backlash-now/
“No feminist ever said the women’s movement was about women ‘having it all,’” Susan Faludi said. “In the 80s, it was falsely held up as a feminist promise broken.”
- Some parents won’t vaccinate their kids against covid. Here are their reasons.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/03/29/parents-oppose-coronavirus-vaccine/
They feel more capable of controlling the risks of the virus than the vaccine.
- Why having kids doesn’t necessarily make you happier, according to research
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/16/does-having-children-make-you-happier-science-of-parenthood-explained.html
Parents often refer to their children as their “pride and joy.” But research tells a different story: Having kids doesn’t necessarily make people happier.
- In the war between work and babies, work is winning
https://www.deseret.com/indepth/2021/3/18/22337961/does-family-policy-delivered-through-jobs-keep-fertility-rates-low-america-birth-rate-babies
An Institute for Family Studies report says work policies designed to help families may not achieve their goals
- In 25 Years, the Pay Gap Has Shrunk by Just 8 Cents
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/us/equal-pay-day-explainer.html
Why does the gender wage gap still exist? And what can be done to close it? We unpack the issue.
- ‘Living Paycheck to Paycheck, Living Diaper to Diaper’
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/parenting/diaper-bank-coronavirus.html
Diaper need causes more anxiety than food or housing insecurity for some mothers.
- Child Care Costs as Much as College for Some Michigan Families
https://www.wxpr.org/post/child-care-costs-much-college-some-michigan-families#stream/0
Affordable child care is a crucial support for working parents, rivaling the cost of college or housing for some Michiganders.
- U.S. Childhood Disability Rate Up in 2019 From 2008
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/03/united-states-childhood-disability-rate-up-in-2019-from-2008.html
Disability Rates Highest Among American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Children Living in Poverty
- Video-led programme reduces behaviour problems in children as young as 12 months
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/video-led-feedback-programme-reduces-behaviour-problems-in-children-as-young-as-12-months/
A home-based parenting programme to prevent childhood behaviour problems, which very unusually focuses on children when they are still toddlers, has proven highly successful during its first public health trial.
- How Polyamorists and Polygamists Are Challenging Family Norms
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/22/how-polyamorists-and-polygamists-are-challenging-family-norms/
From opposite sides of the culture, parallel campaigns for legal recognition may soon make multiple-partner marriages as unremarkable as same-sex marriages.
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*CCF Experts are welcome to send recently published work to michael_garcia@utexas.edu. Please limit submissions to work published within the past 60 days.
