Council on Contemporary Families

CCF Media Brief – December 16, 2022

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS:

  1. The myth of the evil stepmother
  2. More Men Are Swapping Work for Childcare — But There’s a Long Way To Go Yet
  3. More Men Are Staying Out of the Workforce to Care for Kids

OTHER NEWS:

  1. How to Actually Enjoy the Holidays
  2. Women carry this unequal holiday burden year-round
  3. ‘Disruptive,’ or Depressed? Psychiatrists Reach Out to Teens of Color
  4. More time in the presence of your romantic partner lowers your C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation
  5. Adult children more likely to be estranged from dad than mom
  6. Recording a Family Member is a Gift to Your Future Self
  7. Young folks are moving in with their parents in record numbers. Meet 5 making it work
  8. One-in-four U.S. parents say they’ve struggled to afford food or housing in the past year
  9. Family engagement is critical for schools’ COVID-19 recovery efforts
  10. Childhood’s Greatest Danger: The Data on Kids and Gun Violence
  11. Pandemic Learning Loss
  12. How to split chores, stop ‘lifestyle creep’ and more

NEW ON THE CCF BLOG:

  1. Neighborhood Social Cohesion Not in Decline, But Concerning Disparities Persist
  2. Americans think the best parents take 11-12 weeks of paid parental leave

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  1. The myth of the evil stepmother
    https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20221118-the-myth-of-the-evil-stepmother/
    Popular culture tells us that stepmothers are mean, neglectful – even deadly. Yet there’s little evidence to support the myth. Why does it prevail?

  2. More Men Are Swapping Work for Childcare — But There’s a Long Way To Go Yet
    https://katiecouric.com/lifestyle/men-swapping-work-for-childcare/

  3. More Men Are Staying Out of the Workforce to Care for Kids
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-29/more-men-ditch-jobs-to-become-stay-at-home-dads-and-care-for-kids/
    Government statistics undercount the number of men taking on full-time caregiving responsibilities.

  4. How to Actually Enjoy the Holidays
    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/07/well/mind/holiday-stress.html
    We asked experts to provide a few solutions to our holiday stressors. Consider their answers our gift to you.

  5. Women carry this unequal holiday burden year-round
    https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/06/opinions/holiday-labor-toll-on-women-alaimo/index.html
    Many moms are already stretched thin and don’t have time for all the additional work of the holidays.

  6. ‘Disruptive,’ or Depressed? Psychiatrists Reach Out to Teens of Color
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/health/adolescents-mental-health-psychiatry.html
    In Atlanta, a team of Black mental health experts is bringing care to adolescents whose needs often go unaddressed and misunderstood.

  7. More time in the presence of your romantic partner lowers your C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation
    https://www.psypost.org/2022/12/more-time-in-the-presence-of-your-romantic-partner-lowers-your-c-reactive-protein-a-marker-of-inflammation-64487/
    Simply being in the physical presence of your romantic partner may offer powerful health benefits, according to new research set to be published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.

  8. Adult children more likely to be estranged from dad than mom
    https://news.osu.edu/adult-children-more-likely-to-be-estranged-from-dad-than-mom/
    Estrangement overall is fairly common, national study finds

  9. Recording a Family Member is a Gift to Your Future Self
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/well/family/family-audio-recording-holidays.html
    You can create an audio time capsule with anyone you love.

  10. Young folks are moving in with their parents in record numbers. Meet 5 making it work
    https://www.npr.org/2022/12/11/1139330863/genz-millennials-living-parents

  11. One-in-four U.S. parents say they’ve struggled to afford food or housing in the past year
    https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/12/07/one-in-four-u-s-parents-say-theyve-struggled-to-afford-food-or-housing-in-the-past-year/
    Amid soaring inflation rates and signs that the economy is approaching a recession, one-in-four U.S. parents say there have been times in the past year when they could not afford food their family needed or to pay their rent or mortgage.

  12. Family engagement is critical for schools’ COVID-19 recovery efforts
    https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2022/12/06/family-engagement-is-critical-for-schools-covid-19-recovery-efforts/
    More than two and a half years later, the cumulative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and their caregivers are coming into clear view.

  13. Childhood’s Greatest Danger:The Data on Kids and Gun Violence
    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/14/magazine/gun-violence-children-data-statistics.html

  14. Pandemic Learning Loss
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/briefing/pandemic-learning-loss.html
    The role remote education played.

  15. How to split chores, stop ‘lifestyle creep’ and more
    https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140732063/life-kits-top-episodes-of-2022-how-to-split-chores-stop-lifestyle-creep-and-more
    NPR’s Life Kit offered a lot of tips this year. We shared guidance on how to take better photos on vacation, how to find your singing voice and even how to overcome FOMO.

  16. Neighborhood Social Cohesion Not in Decline, But Concerning Disparities Persist
    https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2022/12/06/neighborhood-social-cohesion-not-in-decline-but-concerning-disparities-persist/

  17. Americans think the best parents take 11-12 weeks of paid parental leave
    https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2022/12/13/americans-think-the-best-parents-take-11-12-weeks-of-paid-parental-leave/
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