CCF EXPERT MEMBERS IN THE NEWS:
1. The Value of Paternity Leave for Children and Families with Richard Petts, PhD
2. LGBTQ Youth and Young Adults Are Coming Out Into a Polarized Environment—and Finding Valuable School and Community Support
3. ‘There’s only so far I can take them’ – why teachers give up on struggling students who don’t do their homework
4. The N.Y.U. Chemistry Students Shouldn’t Have Needed That Petition
5. How Gender Stereotypes Influence Financial Confidence Between Partners
6. New Finance Survey From The Knot Reveals an Opportunity for Women to Level the Playing Field in Shared Financial Decisions
7. Boys and men experience more social isolation than girls and women, study finds
8. Dr. Joshua Coleman: Why Adult Children Cut Ties With Parents
OTHER NEWS:
9. Technology Can Make Your Relationships Shallower
10. Meeting the Mental Health Challenge in School and at Home
11. How the US Will Revamp Family Caregiver Support
12. Grand-mates: Generations Sharing a Special Bond (and Sometimes the Rent)
NEW ON THE CCF BLOG:
13. HOW You Talk with Your Child about Sex Matters
14. More Dads are Home Taking Care of Children than Ever Before – Are Views About Gender and Work Changing?
EVENTS OF INTEREST:
15. Virtual Panel: The Sociology of the Family/Taking Stock of the Field and Imagining the Future
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1. The Value of Paternity Leave for Children and Families with Richard Petts, PhD
https://harveyschwartzmd.com/2022/10/07/ep-37-the-value-of-paternity-leave-for-children-and-families-with-richard-petts-phd/
Richard’s research documents the profound positive impact that fathers taking time off at the birth of a child has both in the short-term and long-term.
2. LGBTQ Youth and Young Adults Are Coming Out Into a Polarized Environment—and Finding Valuable School and Community Support
https://popresearchcenters.org/research-highlights/lgbtq-youth-and-young-adults-are-coming-out-into-a-polarized-environment-and-finding-valuable-school-and-community-support/
“LGBTQ youth are on a collision course, between normal adolescent development and the social changes of the last few decades, Fish and coauthor Stephen Russell of the University of Texas at Austin argue in a recent paper.”
3. ‘There’s only so far I can take them’ – why teachers give up on struggling students who don’t do their homework
https://theconversation.com/theres-only-so-far-i-can-take-them-why-teachers-give-up-on-struggling-students-who-dont-do-their-homework-187896
Failure to complete homework leaves students in the lurch.
4. The N.Y.U. Chemistry Students Shouldn’t Have Needed That Petition
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/opinion/nyu-professor-fired-maitland-jones.html
New York University fired Prof. Maitland Jones Jr. this summer, after 82 of the 350 students in his organic chemistry class signed a petition expressing concern about the effectiveness of Dr. Jones’s teaching.
5. How Gender Stereotypes Influence Financial Confidence Between Partners
https://www.theknot.com/content/gender-stereotypes
According to The Knot Financial Survey 2022, women are falling behind their male partners on the topic of money–and it’s perception, not reality.
6. New Finance Survey From The Knot Reveals an Opportunity for Women to Level the Playing Field in Shared Financial Decisions
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220928005421/en/New-Finance-Survey-From-The-Knot-Reveals-an-Opportunity-for-Women-to-Level-the-Playing-Field-in-Shared-Financial-Decisions
Data from ‘the knot financial survey 2022: for the love of money’ is explored in a new article from the knot discussing women’s unsubstantiated low self-confidence regarding their financial knowledge and decision making, why it exists and most importantly how to narrow the gap.
7. Boys and men experience more social isolation than girls and women, study finds
https://www.psypost.org/2022/09/boys-and-men-experience-more-social-isolation-than-girls-and-women-study-finds-63947
A study published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior has found that boys and men experience more social isolation than girls and women, with this difference disproportionately affecting the unmarried, or individuals with disrupted relationship histories.
8. Dr. Joshua Coleman: Why Adult Children Cut Ties With Parents
https://courageouslyu.com/dr-joshua-coleman/
9. Technology Can Make Your Relationships Shallower
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/09/technology-happiness-communication-relationships/671586/
But it’s all in how you use it.
10. Meeting the Mental Health Challenge in School and at Home
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/education/learning/students-mental-health.html
From kindergarten through college, educators are experimenting with ways to ease the stress students are facing — not only from the pandemic, but from life itself.
11. How the US Will Revamp Family Caregiver Support
https://hospicenews.com/2022/10/07/how-the-u-s-will-revamp-family-caregiver-support/
Without family caregivers, many hospice patients would be unable to receive care in their homes.
12. Grand-mates: Generations Sharing a Special Bond (and Sometimes the Rent)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/realestate/grandparents-grandchildren-living-together.html
More young adults are moving in with their grandparents, in a trend known as “skipped-generation” households.
13. HOW You Talk with Your Child about Sex Matters
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2022/10/04/how-you-talk-with-your-child-about-sex-matters/
Talking with your children about sex is important in setting them up for healthy sexual development, but it’s also really hard work!
14. More Dads are Home Taking Care of Children than Ever Before – Are Views About Gender and Work Changing?
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2022/09/27/more-dads-are-home-taking-care-of-children-than-ever-before-are-views-about-gender-and-work-changing/
In 2021, the number of stay-at-home dads in the United States reached record highs. Does this mean that cultural views about gender, masculinity, work, and family—particularly the idea that men should be breadwinners—are changing? Not necessarily.
15. Virtual Panel: The Sociology of the Family/Taking Stock of the Field and Imagining the Future
https://events.uchicago.edu/event/170571-the-sociology-of-the-family-taking-stock-of-the
2023 is the 50th anniversary of the American Journal of Sociology special issue, “Changing Women in a Changing Society.” To recognize this anniversary, the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality at the University of Chicago is organizing a series of virtual panel discussions around key areas of feminist sociology. These virtual panels are open to the public and we encourage you to invite your students. Our first panel discussion will be on Monday, November 14th at 5pm CST. The theme is, “The Sociology of the Family: Taking Stock of the Field and Imagining the Future.” It features Prof. Marbella Eboni Hill (Stanford University), Prof. Allison Pugh (University of Virginia), and Prof. Rin Reczek (Ohio State) in conversation with Prof. Jaclyn Wong (University of South Carolina).
