NEW BRIEF REPORT FROM CCF!
1. Mine and Yours, or Ours: Are All Egalitarian Relationships Equal?
CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS:
2. A Smarter Way to Divide Chores?
3. When it comes to housework, it’s not just if couples share, but also how, that matters
4. The Way Couples Split Chores Can Improve Relationships, According to a New Study
5. UT Austin professor speaks on decades of researching LGBTQ+ kids
6. How marriage has evolved over time
OTHER NEWS:
7. Gen Z does not dream of labor
8. Has Marriage Been Ruined for Women?
9. Many family members of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 experience PTSD
10. The death rate for children has dropped dramatically. Yet there’s cause for alarm
11. Child and teen suicides have increased during pandemic in over a dozen states, research shows
NEW ON THE CCF BLOG:
12. Amsterdam Black Women Refusing Myths of Color-Blindness
13. Schools As Hostile Institutions: Everyday Violence Against Black Girls and Immigrant Girls of Color
14. When Therapists Encourage Family Cutoffs
QUARTERLY EXPERT PUBLICATIONS:
15. Pathways and Patterns of Entrance into BDSM
16. Student Loan Debt, Family Support, and Reciprocity in the Transition to Adulthood
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1. Mine and Yours, or Ours: Are All Egalitarian Relationships Equal?
https://sites.utexas.edu/contemporaryfamilies/2022/04/25/egalitarian-relationships-brief-report/
In a new briefing paper, family and consumer studies professor Daniel Carlson (University of Utah) summarizes his forthcoming research on how the household division of labor in mixed-sex couples affects marital satisfaction for men and women.
2. A Smarter Way to Divide Chores?
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/04/household-chores-share-responsibility-study/629671/
Couples who share every task, rather than having their own separate to-do lists, tend to be more satisfied with their relationship.
3. When it comes to housework, it’s not just if couples share, but also how, that matters
https://www.deseret.com/2022/4/25/23041239/should-men-women-share-housework-divide-tasks-intimacy-sex-roles-council-on-contemporary-families
A new briefing from the Council on Contemporary Families shows how men and women balance cleaning, cooking, shopping and more matters a lot to sexual intimacy and relationship satisfaction
4. The Way Couples Split Chores Can Improve Relationships, According to a New Study
https://time.com/6168794/sharing-chores-can-improve-relationships-study/
5. UT Austin professor speaks on decades of researching LGBTQ+ kids
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/ut-austin-professor-speaks-on-decades-of-researching-lgbtq-kids/
Dr. Stephen Russell has spent the past 25 years researching LGBTQ+ youth, a group that has increasingly become the target of political attacks and legislation.
6. How marriage has evolved over time
https://www.upr.org/show/access-utah/2022-04-27/evolution-of-marriage-on-wednesdays-access-utah
Stephanie Coontz, Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families and author of Marriage: A History says that marrying for love is a comparatively recent idea and that marriage suffered as an institution just as it began to thrive as a personal relationship.
7. Gen Z does not dream of labor
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22977663/gen-z-antiwork-capitalism
On TikTok and online, the youngest workers are rejecting work as we know it. How will that play out IRL?
8. Has Marriage Been Ruined for Women?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/staying-sane-inside-insanity/202204/has-marriage-been-ruined-women
Marriage, gender norms, and COVID have wreaked havoc on many relationships.
9. Many family members of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 experience PTSD
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/04/27/PTSD-COVID-19-family/9971650997619/
A new study found that more than six in 10 family members displayed “significant” signs of PTSD three to four months after their loved one’s initial hospital admission
10. The death rate for children has dropped dramatically. Yet there’s cause for alarm
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/04/27/1093856457/the-death-rate-for-children-has-dropped-dramatically-yet-theres-cause-for-alarm
A new study points to concerns about childhood deaths after a hospitalization for such diseases as pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria.
11. Child and teen suicides have increased during pandemic in over a dozen states, research shows
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/3468922-child-and-teen-suicides-have-increased-during-pandemic-in-over-a-dozen-states-research-shows/
Health care professionals have long been sounding the alarm on the state of adolescent mental health in the pandemic.
12. Amsterdam Black Women Refusing Myths of Color-Blindness
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2022/04/26/amsterdam-black-women-refusing-myths-of-color-blindness/
13. Schools As Hostile Institutions: Everyday Violence Against Black Girls and Immigrant Girls of Color
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2022/04/19/schools-as-hostile-institutions-everyday-violence-against-black-girls-and-immigrant-girls-of-color/
14. When Therapists Encourage Family Cutoffs
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2022/04/19/when-therapists-encourage-family-cutoffs/
15. Walker, Alicia M. and Arielle Kuperberg. 2022. “Pathways and Patterns of Entrance into BDSM.” Archives of Sexual Behavior. Published Online First.
Viewable for free here: https://t.co/6aN7z2OmuZ
16. Mazelis, Joan Maya and Arielle Kuperberg. 2022. “Student Loan Debt, Family Support, and Reciprocity in the Transition to Adulthood.” Emerging Adulthood. Published Online First. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/21676968221080007
