CCF Media Brief – August 2, 2021

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS:

NEW ON THE CCF BLOG:

Who Is Offered and Who Gets an IUD or Implant Before Leaving the Hospital after Having a Baby?

OTHER NEWS:

Penn State’s 29^thAnnual Symposium on Family Issues: Environmental Impacts on Families: Change, Challenge, and Adaptation
COVID-19 Pandemic Hit Black Households Harder Than White Households, Even When Pre-Pandemic Socio-Economic Disparities Are Taken Into Account
Care workers are deeply undervalued and underpaid: Estimating fair and equitable wages in the care sectors
Let It Go? Disney Princess Culture Isn’t Toxic, Study Finds
The Lines of Connection
Return of the Family Values Zombie
The Pandemic Ruined Third Grade. Can Summer School Make Up for It?
The Surprising Innovations of Pandemic-Era Sex
Looking for Love Post-Lockdown? Niche Dating Apps Are the Next Big Thing
Why Millennials and Gen Z Aren’t Proud to Be American

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Study links low upward mobility to early mortality
https://news.yale.edu/2021/07/27/study-links-low-upward-mobility-early-mortality
Upward mobility — the capacity to improve one’s socioeconomic status — is key to realizing the American dream of a long, prosperous, and happy life, Yale researchers say.

Here’s Why College Students Hookup, Says Science
https://mensvariety.com/college-hookup-motivation-718/
A recent study from the journal Sexuality and Culture reveals that a majority of college students hookup for the sole purpose of experiencing pleasure.

Is It Possible To Convince Unvaccinated Family Members To Get Their Shot?
https://www.romper.com/life/how-to-handle-unvaccinated-family
With the Delta variant of Covid causing a surge in new cases, it’s more important than ever for everyone to get vaccinated.

What’s Ripping American Families Apart?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/29/opinion/estranged-american-families.html/
At least 27 percent of Americans are estranged from a member of their own family, and research suggests about 40 percent of Americans have experienced estrangement at some point.

Environmental Impacts on Families: Change, Challenge, and Adaptation
Penn State’s 29^th Annual Symposium on Family Issues on October 25-26, 2021
Families are embedded in larger contexts that have implications for family relationships and well-being. While family scholars have documented the role of the social environment in family functioning, less attention has been paid to how dimensions of the physical environment may impact families, including factors that protect families and promote their resilience in the face of change and challenge. Toward stimulating novel interdisciplinary and translational research on families, the 2021 Family Symposium will interrogate the role of the physical environment in family relationships, behaviors, and well-being, with a focus on three key dimensions: environmental disasters, climate change, and the built environment. Registration is required. The Symposium on Family Issues is sponsored annually by The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R13 HD048150).

COVID-19 Pandemic Hit Black Households Harder Than White Households, Even When Pre-Pandemic Socio-Economic Disparities Are Taken Into Account
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/07/how-pandemic-affected-black-and-white-households.html/
The coronavirus pandemic has been physically, emotionally and economically difficult for everyone but it has hit some groups harder than others.

Let It Go? Disney Princess Culture Isn’t Toxic, Study Finds
https://www.wsj.com/articles/let-it-go-disney-princess-culture-isnt-toxic-study-finds-11627736400/
Five-year study on the effects of exposure to cartoon princesses gives parents hope that their daughters won’t grow up helpless—but the debate rages on

The Lines of Connection
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/phoning-home-connecticut-state-prison/619586/
States make millions off phone-call fees from incarcerated people, but the cost can be even higher for their families.

Return of the Family Values Zombie
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/opinion/child-tax-credit-family-values.html/
Children need real help, not empty rhetoric.

The Pandemic Ruined Third Grade. Can Summer School Make Up for It?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/us/pandemic-summer-school.html
After months of remote learning, Zion Graham is in summer school. But can a six-week program make up for his lost year?

The Surprising Innovations of Pandemic-Era Sex
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/07/the-pandemic-might-have-changed-sex-for-the-better/619553/
Many queer people are reimagining their own boundaries and thinking of this reentry period as a time for sexual self-discovery.

Looking for Love Post-Lockdown? Niche Dating Apps Are the Next Big Thing
https://www.wsj.com/articles/looking-for-love-post-lockdown-niche-dating-apps-are-the-next-big-thing-11627639200/
Designed to pair up pet owners, runners, vegetarians, gamers and even astrology zealots, super-specific dating apps are helping singles find common ground quickly now that we’re no longer confined

Why Millennials and Gen Z Aren’t Proud to Be American
https://www.newsweek.com/patriotism-gap-millennials-gen-z-baby-boomers-gen-x-1611749
Are you proud to be American? It’s a seemingly simple question, but also a loaded one. And myriad factors could impact the answer—including how old the person being asked is.