CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS:
1. Who’s helping around the house? It’s a he said, she said situation
2. The Hidden Costs of Living Alone
NEW ON THE CCF BLOG:
3. 3Q with Dr. Alicia Walker, New Editor of This Blog!
4. Designing parental leave policies that reduce stigmas associated with leave-taking
NEW WORK BY CCF EXPERTS:
5. Care, Mothering and the Academy: Making the Invisible Visible
OTHER NEWS:
6. COVID deaths leave thousands of U.S. kids grieving parents or primary caregivers
7. The Married Will Soon Be the Minority
8. The Great Resignation Is Accelerating
9. Remote work is bringing the city to the suburbs
10. The Affordable Housing Crisis Is Destroying Relationships and Families
11. Pediatricians say the mental health crisis among kids has become a national emergency
12. Lego to remove gender bias from its toys after findings of child survey
13. Why Is Raising a Child in the United States So Hard?
14. All women know they are prey – and that no one with any authority seems to care
15. How Scrubs Reinforce Sexist Double Standards
16. Stealthing: California bans non-consensual condom removal
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1. Who’s helping around the house? It’s a he said, she said situation
https://www.deseret.com/2021/10/12/22698901/do-men-or-women-help-more-around-the-house-american-family-survey-childcare-cleaning-chores
Men did step up in doing chores and child care during the pandemic. But will that change turn into a trend?
2. The Hidden Costs of Living Alone
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/10/living-alone-couple-partner-single/620434/
In ways both large and small, American society still assumes that the default adult has a partner and that the default household contains multiple people.
3. 3Q with Dr. Alicia Walker, New Editor of This Blog!
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2021/10/12/3q-with-dr-alicia-walker-new-editor-of-this-blog/
4. Designing parental leave policies that reduce stigmas associated with leave-taking
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2021/10/19/designing-parental-leave-policies-that-reduce-stigmas-associated-with-leave-taking/
5. Care, Mothering and the Academy: Making the Invisible Visible
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0424.12576
6. COVID deaths leave thousands of U.S. kids grieving parents or primary caregivers
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/10/07/1043881136/covid-deaths-leave-thousands-of-u-s-kids-grieving-parents-or-primary-caregivers
Of all the sad statistics the U.S. has dealt with this past year and a half, here is a particularly difficult one: A new study estimates that more than 140,000 children in the U.S. have lost a parent or a grandparent caregiver to COVID-19.
7. The Married Will Soon Be the Minority
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/opinion/marriage-decline-america.html/
8. The Great Resignation Is Accelerating
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/great-resignation-accelerating/620382/
A lasting effect of this pandemic will be a revolution in worker expectations.
9. Remote work is bringing the city to the suburbs
https://www.vox.com/recode/22714777/remote-work-from-home-city-suburbs-housing-traffic
How working from home is changing the suburbs as we know them.
10. The Affordable Housing Crisis Is Destroying Relationships and Families
https://www.newsweek.com/affordable-housing-crisis-destroying-relationships-families-opinion-1641326
11. Pediatricians say the mental health crisis among kids has become a national emergency
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/20/1047624943/pediatricians-call-mental-health-crisis-among-kids-a-national-emergency
A coalition of the nation’s leading experts in pediatric health has issued an urgent warning declaring the mental health crisis among children so dire that it has become a national emergency.
12. Lego to remove gender bias from its toys after findings of child survey
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/11/lego-to-remove-gender-bias-after-survey-shows-impact-on-children-stereotypes
Research reveals harmful stereotypes still hindering girls, boys and their parents
13. Why Is Raising a Child in the United States So Hard?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/opinion/child-care-biden-pre-k.html
14. All women know they are prey – and that no one with any authority seems to care
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/01/women-prey-authority-violence-against-women
Despite the horrifying levels of violence against women, there is no strategy to end it. Just promises to ‘learn lessons’
15. How Scrubs Reinforce Sexist Double Standards
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/how-pandemic-fueled-sexism-against-women-doctors/620380/
Female doctors have always dealt with appearance-related confusion and disrespect. That only got worse during the pandemic.
16. Stealthing: California bans non-consensual condom removal
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58848000
