CCF EXPER MEMBERS IN THE NEWS:
1. You don’t need to be a parent to build meaningful relationships with kids
2. Just Deal With It: Married Same-Sex Couples Deal Better With Stress
3. Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict
OTHER NEWS:
4. A Rocky Marriage Can Make It Harder to Recover from a Heart Attack
5. LGBTQ Youth Coming Out at Earlier Ages but Face Greater Challenges
6. Fighting Parents May Transmit Genetic Risk for Alcohol Problems to Kid
7. New Psychological Research Identifies 2 Ingredients of A Great Dating Profile
NEW ON THE CCF BLOG
8. Despite Barriers, LGBTQ People Can—and Do—Build Families
9. What is friendship? Learning from Asexual and Aromantic Perspectives
QUARTERLY EXPERT PUBLICATIONS:
10. US Parents’ Domestic Labor During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic
11. What Workers Say: Decades of Struggle and How to Make Real Opportunity Now
12. Work Matters: How Parents’ Jobs Shape Children’s Well-Being
13. Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers
14. Parental leave-taking and perceptions of workers as good parents
15. Dyadic coping and marital quality in same-sex and different-sex marriages
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1. You don’t need to be a parent to build meaningful relationships with kids
https://www.vox.com/even-better/23424471/kids-adults-mentorship-community
Kids of all ages benefit from community ties with adults who aren’t in their immediate families. What could that look like in practice?
2. Just Deal With It: Married Same-Sex Couples Deal Better With Stress
https://www.advocate.com/love-and-sex/2022/11/03/just-deal-it-married-same-sex-couples-deal-better-stress
A new study shows that married same-sex couples are more collaborative.
3. Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-45-ontario-today/clip/15945368-rules-estrangement-why-adult-children-cut-ties-how
Stories of repairing relationships, with author and clinical psychologist Joshua Coleman whose book explores why an increasing number of parents are no longer on speaking terms with their adult children.
4. A Rocky Marriage Can Make It Harder to Recover from a Heart Attack
https://www.everydayhealth.com/heart-attack/a-rocky-marriage-can-make-it-harder-to-recover-from-a-heart-attack/
A stressful marriage may be harmful to heart attack survivors under age 55, a new study reports.
5. LGBTQ Youth Coming Out at Earlier Ages but Face Greater Challenges
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/lgbtq-youth-coming-out-at-earlier-ages-but-face-greater-challenges
New research from The Trevor Project finds that LGBTQ youth are coming out at younger ages, but they also report higher rates of victimization, which can impact their mental health and risk of suicide.
6. Fighting Parents May Transmit Genetic Risk for Alcohol Problems to Kid
https://www.futurity.org/parents-childrens-health-divorce-alcohol-2825202-2/
Parents can transmit a genetic risk for alcohol problems to their children not only directly, but also indirectly via genetically influenced aspects of the home environment, such as marital discord or divorce, according to new research.
7. New Psychological Research Identifies 2 Ingredients of A Great Dating Profile
https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2022/10/24/new-psychological-research-identifies-2-ingredients-of-a-great-dating-profile/
A new study published in the academic journal PLOS-ONE encourages dating app users not to be shy when crafting their online dating profile text.
8. Despite Barriers, LGBTQ People Can—and Do—Build Families
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2022/11/01/despite-barriers-lgbtq-people-can-and-do-build-families/
The family-building landscape for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) people has changed a great deal over the past several decades.
9. What is friendship? Learning from Asexual and Aromantic Perspectives
https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2022/10/25/what-is-friendship-learning-from-asexual-and-aromantic-perspectives/
Imagine a world where everyone searches for their one true Friend, someone they hope to spend the rest of their life with.
10. Carlson, D.L., Petts, R.J. (2022). US Parents’ Domestic Labor During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Popul Res Policy Rev 41, 2393–2418 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-022-09735-1
11. Iversen, R. (2022). What Workers Say: Decades of Struggle and How to Make Real Opportunity Now. Temple University Press. https://tupress.temple.edu/books/what-workers-say
12. Perry-Jenkins, M. (2022). Work Matters: How Parents’ Jobs Shape Children’s Well-Being. Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691174693/work-matters
13. Petts, R. (2022). Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003229315
14. Petts, R. J., Kaufman, G., & Mize, T. D. (2022). Parental leave-taking and perceptions of workers as good parents. Journal of Marriage and Family, 1– 19. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12875
15. Wang, Y., & Umberson, D. (2022). Dyadic coping and marital quality in same-sex and different-sex marriages. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075221123096
