NEW FROM CCF!
1. No More in the Shadows: Racism, Family Structure, and Black Families
CCF EXPERT MEMBERS IN THE NEWS:
2. What Every Marketer Should Know About Women’s Economic Power
3. Pets vs. Parenthood: Why Millennials Are Owning Pets Instead of Having Kids
4. Why Estrangement Reconciliation Is Often Within Reach
5. Why More and More Children are Cutting Off Their Parents
OTHER NEWS:
6. How the baby formula shortage financially strains U.S. families
7. The Pandemic Drop In Food Insecurity Among Families With Children
8. More states are allowing children to take mental health days
9. New study identifies an increasing disinterest in fatherhood among childless men in the United States
10. Study: Where a Child Lives Is Linked to Life Expectancy
11. Landmark study reveals how your parenting style is impacting your child’s weight
12. The millennials in sexless marriages
NEW ON THE CCF BLOG:
13. Doubling NIH Funding for Women’s Health would Yield Substantial Return on Investment
14. Life in Post-Roe America
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1. No More in the Shadows: Racism, Family Structure, and Black Families
https://sites.utexas.edu/contemporaryfamilies/2022/10/14/racism-family-structure-and-black-families-press-release/
Why does family structure—aka marriage–remain such an enduring explanation for Black-White inequality in the US?
2. What Every Marketer Should Know About Women’s Economic Power
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bridgetbrennan/2022/10/20/what-every-marketer-should-know-about-womens-economic-power/
Women drive the majority of consumer spending through a combination of buying power and influence. Here’s what you need to know now.
3. Pets vs. Parenthood: Why Millennials Are Owning Pets Instead of Having Kids
https://millennialmarketing.com/2017/07/pets-vs-parenthood-why-millennials-are-owning-pets-instead-of-having-kids/
Young Americans may be less likely to be homeowners or parents of human children, but they are leading in their rate of pet ownership.
4. Why Estrangement Reconciliation Is Often Within Reach
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-rules-estrangement/202210/why-estrangement-reconciliation-is-often-within-reach
There are many paths to estrangement beyond dysfunctional parents.
5. Why More and More Children are Cutting Off Their Parents
https://www.persuasion.community/p/coleman
Yascha Mounk and Joshua Coleman discuss how the nature of family life has shifted in recent decades.
6. How the baby formula shortage financially strains U.S. families
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/how-the-baby-formula-shortage-financially-strains-u-s-families
The national shortage of baby formula in the U.S. that began in February of 2022 cast an urgent spotlight on the difficulties parents can face in meeting basic nutritional needs of their babies.
7. The Pandemic Drop In Food Insecurity Among Families With Children
https://econofact.org/the-pandemic-drop-in-food-insecurity-among-households-with-children
Child poverty and the share households with children facing food insecurity fell to all-time lows in 2021. Looking at the success of the policies enacted — and where they fell short — provides lessons for the effectiveness of social investments in reducing food insecurity and child poverty going forward.
8. More states are allowing children to take mental health days
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/10/02/student-mental-health-days/
Such issues are being recognized as legitimate reasons to miss school, along with sore throats, colds and tummy aches
9. New study identifies an increasing disinterest in fatherhood among childless men in the United States
https://www.psypost.org/2022/10/new-study-identifies-an-increasing-disinterest-in-fatherhood-among-childless-men-in-the-united-states-64072
Currently, over one third of American men have no children, prompting the question of why? A study published in Journal of Marriage and Family suggests that this is partially due to an increasing disinterest in fatherhood.
10. Study: Where a Child Lives Is Linked to Life Expectancy
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-10-17/study-where-a-child-lives-is-linked-to-life-expectancy
Conditions and resources in the neighborhood where a child grows up can have a dramatic impact on their long-term health, new research suggests.
11. Landmark study reveals how your parenting style is impacting your child’s weight
https://fortune.com/2022/10/19/parenting-style-affect-kids-weight-not-good-news-authoritarian-landmark-study-imperial-college/
Children who are not treated warmly by their parents are more likely to grow up to be overweight or obese, according to the first-ever study determining the effect of parenting styles on children’s weight.
12. The millennials in sexless marriages
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20221019-the-millennials-in-sexless-marriages
Millennials should be at their sexual prime. Why are so many couples reporting major dry spells?
13. Doubling NIH Funding for Women’s Health would Yield Substantial Return on Investment
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2022/10/11/doubling-nih-funding-for-womens-health-would-yield-substantial-return-on-investment/
14. Life in Post-Roe America
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2022/10/18/life-in-post-roe-america/
