The Marriage Strengthening Research & Dissemination Center (MAST) recently released a new research brief, “Trends in Relationship Formation and Stability in the United States: Dating, Cohabitation, Marriage, and Divorce.” Co-authored by CCF expert Dr. Karen Benjamin Guzzo, the brief is the first in a series aiming to provide an overview of the current state of research on romantic relationships.
Members In The News
CCF’s Joshua Coleman on Helping Your Family Take COVID-19 Seriously
Are you having trouble convincing your family to take COVID-19 seriously? CCF senior fellow Joshua Coleman has some advice! Read his thoughts in The Atlantic’s “What Do You Tell Someone Who Still Won’t Stay Home?”
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/03/convince-family-take-coronavirus-seriously/608356/
CCF’s Kristi Williams on WHYY Philadelphia
Listen here to see what CCF President of the Board Kristi Williams had to say about romantic love and the modern American marriage on WHYY Philadelphia’s “Solitude and the creative life”.
Link: https://whyy.org/episodes/solitude-and-the-creative-life/
CCF’s Stephanie Coontz for The New York Times: What Can Different-Sex Couples Learn From Same-Sex Couples?
Five years after marriage equality, CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz asks: What can different-sex couples learn from same-sex couples?
Featuring research by CCF experts Joanna Pepin, Dan Carlson, Virginia Rutter, Amanda Miller, Deb Umberson, Kristi Williams, Sharon Sassler and many more, Coontz highlights the role of gender expectations in shaping marital dynamics across same-sex and different-sex couples.
Read more in the NYT’s How to Make Your Marriage Gayer
CCF’s Stephanie Coontz on Paying Stay-at-Home Parents in The New York Times
In a recent article for the New York Times, CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz discusses the potential implications of paying stay-at-home parents, a role most often undertaken by women.
Coontz notes, “without strong incentives for dads to take on some of those duties, this would simultaneously cement women’s second-class place in the work force and perpetuate men’s second-class place in family life.”
The Seattle Times Profiles CCF’s Own Stephanie Coontz
A new profile from The Seattle Times takes a look at the life and career of CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz.
From her involvement in the Seattle anti-war movement to her role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, see why author Bob Young refers to Coontz as “the nation’s leading fact-checker on matters of family and marriage”.