Council on Contemporary Families

CCF Media Brief – June 18, 2021

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS:

  1. ‘It remains purely symbolic’: Why rainbow capitalism can be harmful to LGBTQ people
  2. Had I Known with Sarah Damaske
  3. U.S. birth falls to record low in 2020
  4. Epidemic: Caregiving as Infrastructure with Stephanie Coontz, Julie Morita, Erika Moritsugu, Sarah Murphy
  5. American Sociological Association Honors Leaders in the Discipline
  6. Family Estrangement: Why Rifts Happen and How Families Can Heal
  7. Radical acceptance

NEW WORK BY CCF EXPERTS:

  1. Family Values, Social Reciprocity, and Christianity

NEW ON THE CCF BLOG:

  1. Older Adults Who Live Alone Benefited from Seeing People in Person during the COVID Pandemic but Not Necessarily by Talking on the Phone

 OTHER NEWS:

  1. A pandemic love story you haven’t heard before: Parents and their adult children
  2. “Gray Divorce” Is Soaring. What If It Comes For Your Parents?
  3. Teaching My Black Son to Swim
  4. The Return to the Office Is Pushing Even More Women Out of Work
  5. People with disabilities may wait years for services, with thousands ahead of them
  6. Could child care help open the economy and why is its funding such a contentious topic?
  7. Sexting Among Kids Is Bigger Than Ever—and Often Illegal. Here’s How to Talk to Your Child.
  8. When Your Job Harms Your Mental Health

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  1. ‘It remains purely symbolic’: Why rainbow capitalism can be harmful to LGBTQ people
    https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/life/2021/06/04/what-rainbow-capitalism-and-and-how-does-impact-lgbtq-people/7492381002/
    As Pride month kicks off, big brands sell LGBT merchandise as a seeming sign of solidarity – but this move is being criticized as Rainbow Capitalism.
  1. Had I Known with Sarah Damaske
    https://hadiknown.buzzsprout.com/1163381/8692038-episode-52-sarah-damaske
    Sarah Damaske is a sociologist, a professor, and an author. This week she tells Dave there is nothing else she’d rather be doing. During this great conversation we hear about Sarah’s path to discovering her calling as a sociologist (via a major in Comparative Literature) and we hear about her new book The Tolls of Uncertainty, which takes a deep look at the unemployment system in America.
  1. U.S. birth falls to record low in 2020
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw56MZ_16nU
    The traditional wisdom has been that the world is too populated. But now many countries are concerned about the opposite, declining birth rates.
  1. Epidemic: Caregiving as Infrastructure with Stephanie Coontz, Julie Morita, Erika Moritsugu, Sarah Murphy
    https://www.justhumanproductions.org/podcasts/s1e78-caregiving-as-infrastructure-stephanie-coontz-julie-morita-erika-moritsugu-sarah-murphy
    “The pandemic has given us an opportunity to finally change this and if we don’t, the economic impact from the fallout of women in the workforce is going to be devastating.” -Erika Moritsugu
  1. American Sociological Association Honors Leaders in the Discipline
    https://www.asanet.org/press/press-releases/american-sociological-association-honors-leaders-discipline-0
  1. Family Estrangement: Why Rifts Happen and How Families Can Heal
    https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/family-estrangement-why-rifts-happen-and-how-families-can-heal/
    Dr. Joshua Coleman, author of “The Rules of Estrangement”, discusses why kids and parents become estranged, how to heal those relationships, and why some of them can’t be saved.
  1. Radical acceptance
    https://aeon.co/essays/free-yourself-from-the-tentacles-of-pain-with-radical-acceptance
    The painful feelings you avoid grow twisted in the dark. By facing your sorrows and struggles you can take back your life
  1. Family Values, Social Reciprocity, and Christianity
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j0vTDob4HwR8UDpl9oI8ccDqv8flopt7/view
  1. Older Adults Who Live Alone Benefited from Seeing People in Person during the COVID Pandemic but Not Necessarily by Talking on the Phone
    https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2021/06/15/older-adults-who-live-alone-benefited-from-seeing-people-in-person-during-the-covid-pandemic-but-not-necessarily-by-talking-on-the-phone/
  1. A pandemic love story you haven’t heard before: Parents and their adult children
    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-09/adult-kids-parents-have-unique-covid-love-stories
  1. “Gray Divorce” Is Soaring. What If It Comes For Your Parents?
    https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/gray-divorce-how-to-help-family-yourself/
    Here’s how to help them — and yourself — while coming to terms with the split.
  1. Teaching My Black Son to Swim
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/well/family/black-children-swimming.html\
    A mother’s determination to end a legacy of racial trauma started with mother-son swim lessons.
  1. The Return to the Office Is Pushing Even More Women Out of Work
    https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/return-to-office-is-pushing-even-more-women-out-of-work
    The pandemic took a toll on the careers of many working mothers. A rush back to the office is shaping up to be just as damaging.
  2. People with disabilities may wait years for services, with thousands ahead of them
    https://www.deseret.com/2021/6/12/22465397/will-biden-end-waiting-lists-for-people-with-disability-needing-services-supports-in-home-community
    The Biden administration wants to tackle waiting lists, but hard numbers and plan details not clear
  3. Could child care help open the economy and why is its funding such a contentious topic?
    https://www.deseret.com/2021/5/14/22433994/biden-american-families-plan-boosts-child-care-to-open-economy-funding-such-a-contentious-topic
    The Biden administration’s American Families Plan proposes a big boost to child care help, but experts disagree on how best to help families
  1. Sexting Among Kids Is Bigger Than Ever—and Often Illegal. Here’s How to Talk to Your Child.
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/sexting-among-kids-is-bigger-than-everand-often-illegal-heres-how-to-talk-to-your-child-11622894400
    Girls get requests for nude selfies as a precursor to dating; boys share unsolicited ‘nudes,’ raising issue of consent
  1. When Your Job Harms Your Mental Health
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/well/mind/job-work-mental-health.html
    Naomi Osaka advocated for her well-being at work. Here’s how you can, too.
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