CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS:
1. Why Is There So Much Judgment About How We Feed Our Kids?
2. A Deep Divide In Beliefs Keeps The U.S. Child Care System Fractured
3. 1 in 4 face estrangement and holiday heartaches: What to do if it happens to you
NEW FROM CCF:
4. A Vicious Cycle: How Family Loss Contributes to Racial Disparities in Health
5. Why we feed our children so differently – and why it matters
OTHER NEWS:
6. How Covid-19 Has Affected Dating, Marriages and Relationships
7. What if There’s No Such Thing as Closure?
8. Dating hesitancy: why people might not jump into a new relationship this winter
9. Children, Coping With Loss, Are Pandemic’s ‘Forgotten Grievers’
10. Congress is About to Change Child Care Forever
11. ‘Affair fog’: Why some people jeopardize healthy marriages for quick flames
12. The HPV Vaccine Prevents Cancer, but Most Kids Don’t Receive It.
13. Amid Push to Vaccinate Children, Other Challenges Deluge Pediatricians
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1. Why Is There So Much Judgment About How We Feed Our Kids?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/opinion/inequality-parents-children.html
An interview with Priya Fielding-Singh, the author of “How the Other Half Eats.
2. A Deep Divide In Beliefs Keeps The U.S. Child Care System Fractured
https://www.invw.org/2021/12/12/a-deep-divide-in-beliefs-keeps-the-u-s-child-care-system-fractured/
Barbara Risman has studied gender, family, and work for about 40 years. In child care, she said, there is no question that the United States is “far behind everyone else” in the post-industrial world.
3. 1 in 4 face estrangement and holiday heartaches: What to do if it happens to you
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/1-in-4-face-estrangement-holiday-heartaches/
A Cornell University study shows that 27% of Americans 18 and older report cutting off contact with a family member, although not necessarily with a parent.
4. A Vicious Cycle: How Family Loss Contributes to Racial Disparities in Health
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2021/12/07/a-vicious-cycle-how-family-loss-contributes-to-racial-disparities-in-health/
5. Why we feed our children so differently – and why it matters
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2021/12/14/why-we-feed-our-children-so-differently-and-why-it-matters/
6. How Covid-19 Has Affected Dating, Marriages and Relationships
https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-pandemic-affected-dating-marriages-relationships-11638914552
For most couples, the challenges of Covid have strengthened their relationships, while driving singles to find meaningful ones
7. What if There’s No Such Thing as Closure?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/magazine/grieving-loss-closure.html
Many of us are taught that if we work hard enough we’ll be able to get over our losses. The social scientist Pauline Boss sees it differently.
8. Dating hesitancy: why people might not jump into a new relationship this winter
https://theconversation.com/dating-hesitancy-why-people-might-not-jump-into-a-new-relationship-this-winter-173530
Loneliness levels rose during the lockdowns, but since restrictions have eased, people have not rushed out to find a new date.
9. Children, Coping With Loss, Are Pandemic’s ‘Forgotten Grievers’
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/us/politics/children-lost-parents-caregivers-covid-grief.html
A bipartisan group led by two former governors is urging President Biden to help an estimated 167,000 children who have lost parents or caregivers.
10. Congress is About to Change Child Care Forever
https://www.fatherly.com/news/congress-is-about-to-change-child-care-forever/
The goal of the bill is clear. The results, not so much.
11. ‘Affair fog’: Why some people jeopardize healthy marriages for quick flames
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2021/12/13/marriage-cheating-affair-fog-ruin-relationships/6435569001/
12. The HPV Vaccine Prevents Cancer, but Most Kids Don’t Receive It. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/well/live/hpv-vaccine-children.html
The human papillomavirus vaccine can prevent six potentially lethal malignancies, but inoculation is meeting with rising resistance from parents.
13. Amid Push to Vaccinate Children, Other Challenges Deluge Pediatricians
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/us/politics/children-vaccine-pediatricians.html
At one clinic serving low-income children, treatment for health problems that have gone unchecked during the pandemic is more in demand than coronavirus shots.