Biweekly Media Briefings

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. How We Should Really Think About Divorce: A Response to Cornwall and Coltrane 2. American history is a parade of horrors — and also […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. How Americans Became Convinced Divorce Is Bad for Kids 2. Would you really be happier with someone else? 3. Therapists Have Biases Too. Sometimes […]

CF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS:1. The right person2. Why women do or don’t change their name when they get married3. Cohabitation and Your Relationship OTHER NEWS:4. Study confirms what most […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. When the Rent Rushes Relationships 2. A Simple Fix for a Better Marriage Proposal 3. It’s OK to feel angry at the Roe v. […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS:1. What Makes People Change Their Minds About Abortion?2. How did the safety net hold up in COVID-19 — and should it be expanded?3. My Father’s […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. How America fails children 2. Are fatherlessness and societal breakdown to blame for mass shootings? 3. ‘Parents Are Not All Good and All Bad’ […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. The one book about marriage I wish I’d read before my wedding 2. Are there data-inspired parenting ‘hacks’ — and should you use them? […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. When doctors dismiss concerns of women and people of color, what can we do about it? 2. This Mother’s Day, remember your life was […]

NEW BRIEF REPORT FROM CCF! 1. Mine and Yours, or Ours: Are All Egalitarian Relationships Equal? CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 2. A Smarter Way to Divide Chores? 3. When […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS:1. Multigenerational households on the rise in US2. What does it mean to be a feral club rat? OTHER NEWS:3. Race Is Central to Identity for […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. The Nuclear Family Is No Longer the Norm. Good. 2. Weddings: to have and to hold OTHER NEWS: 3. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. The Key to Escaping the Couple-Envy Trap 2. Can you study your way to a healthy marriage? 3. Influential Women Historians from the Last […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. Remote Work Doesn’t Have to Be the ‘Mommy Track’ 2. Here Comes the … Broom? 3. Families Try Making Up After Pandemic Fights Over […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. Latest jobs report reveals post-pandemic recovery for women is well behind men 2. Increased funding for research in women’s health issues could unleash staggering […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. Should pregnant women get a child tax credit before their baby is born? 2. What is the state of love, marriage and family in […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. Are Gen Z more pragmatic about love and sex? 2. End-of-life conversations can be hard, but your loved ones will thank you 3. When […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. Finding COVID tests. Scheduling booster appointments. Swabbing noses. Stressed moms have yet another job: medical practice manager 2. What makes families flourish or flounder? […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. Why Is There So Much Judgment About How We Feed Our Kids? 2. A Deep Divide In Beliefs Keeps The U.S. Child Care System […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. How economic inequality affects the American diet 2. The Americans who are getting the worst of the surge in inflation 3. Review: How food […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. The Build Back Better Act Can Level the Field for Single Parents NEW ON THE CCF BLOG: 2. Why some straight men have sex […]

NEW BRIEF REPORT FROM CCF! 1. Mothers Are the Primary Earners in Growing Numbers of Families with Children, Including Married-Couple Families CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 2. Most moms will […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. Who’s helping around the house? It’s a he said, she said situation 2. The Hidden Costs of Living Alone NEW ON THE CCF BLOG: […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. The Gender Researcher’s Guide to an Equal Marriage 2. Women Still Do More of the Housework. Here’s How to Share the Load. 3. Study […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. Why people who are anti-sexist aren’t necessarily anti-racist 2. It’s Time To Retire The Phrase “Working Mom” 3. On welfare reform’s 25th anniversary, how […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. The Pandemic Is Making Dads Reevaluate Their Work-Life Balance 2. How to encourage family and friends to stop spreading misinformation on social media 3.‘The […]

NEW BRIEF REPORT FROM CCF! 1. People are Not as Consistent in Their Social Ideologies as We Think: Changing Views on Gender and Race, 1977-2018 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS:1. Why pausing evictions likely won’t help kids harmed by housing uncertainty and instability2. Journal Article Summary: Do reporting professionals overexpose marginalized families to more surveillance […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Study links low upward mobility to early mortality Here’s Why College Students Hookup, Says Science Family ties are more important than always being right Is […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Generation labels mean nothing. It’s time to retire them. NEW ON THE CCF BLOG: Fathers’ Transition into Parenthood – An Interview with Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan Emotion […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Fatherhood Identity Is in Urgent Need of a Feminist Revision Life after the 1918 flu has lessons for our post-pandemic world COVID-19 imperils progress made […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: ‘It remains purely symbolic’: Why rainbow capitalism can be harmful to LGBTQ people Had I Known with Sarah Damaske U.S. birth falls to record low […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Women in Singapore less satisfied with their marriages during and after circuit breaker: Study Women won’t achieve gender equality for their kids until they stop […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Why doesn’t the US value child care? A historic look Mothers Need a Continuous System of Care Even After Babies are Born Have modern parents […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – APRIL 30, 2021 NEW BRIEF REPORT FROM CCF! Staying Ready, Staying Vigilant, Staying Safe: Hyperarousal and hypervigilance in African American male adolescents exposed to community violence […]

  CCF MEDIA BRIEF – APRIL 15, 2021 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: ‘Mommy Juice’ Might Be a Pandemic Stress-Reliever, But It’s Killing Women Women are drinking more since the […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – MARCH 31, 2021 NEW BRIEF REPORT FROM CCF! The Difference Debt Makes: College Students and Grads on How Student Debt Affects Their Life Choices – And […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – MARCH 12, 2021 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS Why is Unemployment Bad for Gender Equality? ‘You try not to eat’: what joblessness means for low-paid women […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – MARCH 2, 2021 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: In the Pandemic, Close Friends Relied on Their ‘Chosen Families’ Why moms have it so much harder than […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – FEBRUARY 11, 2021 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Mitt Romney’s child allowance plan: Love it or hate it, it’s hard to ignore How marriages and intimate […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – JANUARY 29, 2021 NEW FACT SHEET FROM CCF! Why Families Need More Financial Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Calls to state […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – JANUARY 14, 2021 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: A Shift in American Family Values Is Fueling Estrangement What’s missing that could soothe families’ ‘pandemic pain points?’ […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – JULY 30, 2020 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Number of households with hungry children nearing 14 million, study finds Help! I’m Quarantining With My Parents! Frat […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – JULY 16, 2020 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Coronavirus Is Killing the Working Mother ‘I can’t keep this up much longer’: Parents struggle with pandemic strain […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – JULY 2, 2020 NEW FROM CFF! How Dads Make a Difference for Their Children CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Coronavirus Coverage and the Silencing of Female […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – JUNE 17, 2020 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Gay Couples Can Teach Straight People a Thing or Two About Arguing Co-Parenting During Coronavirus Has Made Families […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – JUNE 3, 2020 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: When Couples Fight About Virus Risks Men are taking on (slightly) more household chores amid the coronavirus pandemic […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – MAY 20, 2020 NEW FROM CCF! Men and Women Agree: During the COVID-19 Pandemic Men Are Doing More at Home CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Nearly […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – MAY 6, 2020 NEW FROM CCF! Challenges Facing Cohabiting Couples Differ from those of Married Couples in this Crisis CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Can This […]

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Think Before You File for Divorce After Lockdown Women living alone during coronavirus Singles say they’re better prepared to self-quarantine, but many fear getting shortchanged […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – APRIL 8, 2020 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: As Children Face Disappointments, Parents Can Help Them Develop Resilience How to celebrate Easter and Passover during a […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – MARCH 24, 2020 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Online learning will be hard for kids whose schools close – and the digital divide will make it […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – MARCH 4, 2020 NEW FROM CFF: When “Helicopters” Go to School: Who Gets Rescued and Who Gets Left Behind? CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Parents need […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – FEBRUARY 19, 2020 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: How to Make Your Marriage Gayer Don’t Marry a Man Who Doesn’t Vacuum 6 signs you’re pushing away […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – February 3, 2020 NEW FACT SHEET FROM CCF! National Spouses Day Is This Sunday…. Feeling Any Pressure? CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: First Comes Love Then […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – JANUARY 3, 2020 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: The Gendering of Holiday Labor Why You Should Often Ignore Your Child’s Opinion of You As A Parent […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – DECEMBER 20, 2019 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: When Does a Boyfriend or Girlfriend Become Part of the Family? NEW ON THE CCF BLOG: Parents Can’t […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – DECEMBER 6, 2019 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: Single Moms vs. Single Dads: Examining the Double Standards of Single Parenthood The Best Parenting Advice Is to […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – NOVEMBER 15, 2019 CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: More And More Millennials And Gen Z Are Choosing Abstinence — Here’s Why Goldman Sachs now offers the […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – NOVEMBER 1, 2019 NEW FROM CCF: New CCF symposium! Defining Consent New CCF fact sheet! 10 Scary Facts About Child Poverty NEW ON THE BLOG: Mothering […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – OCTOBER 18, 2019 CCF MEMBERS IN THE NEWS: Understanding the Financial Risks with Owing Child Support We checked out these dating apps for Trump supporters. Here’s […]

  CCF MEMBERS IN THE NEWS: Stay-at-Home Parents Work Hard. Should They Be Paid? There’s a case to be made for feminist marriage — and here’s why NEW ON THE […]

CCF & MEMBERS IN THE NEWS: New CCF Symposium! Parents Can’t Go It Alone—They Never Have: What to Do for Parents to Help Our Next Generation Young People Are Going […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – SEPTEMBER 6TH, 2019 CCF MEMBERS IN THE NEWS: Are Engagements the New Marriage? Liv Tyler Seems to Think So–Here’s What Experts Say Show Me the Money: […]

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – AUGUST 16TH, 2019 CCF MEMBERS IN THE NEWS: A Centennial Celebration of Suffrage: Stephanie Coontz: ‘The Way We Never Were’ Less Sex, Fewer Babies: Blame The […]

CCF Briefing The Golden Girls Would Violate Zoning Laws You Are Probably Overconfident. (If You Skip This, Doubly So.) Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Teens to Get Aid A New […]

CCF Briefing Laboratories of democracy: what Seattle learned from having the highest minimum wage in the nation How Illinois Became an Abortion-Rights Haven The cost of bail for immigrants is […]

CCF Briefing Why Midsize Cities Struggle to Catch Up to Superstar Cities A Prosperous China Says ‘Men Preferred,’ and Women Lose A Better Way to Manage Your Period? Try the […]

CCF Briefing Why Women Getting Abortions Now Are More Likely to Be Poor Why I’m Resisting the Urge to Have Another Kid In Washington, Good Grades for Universal Pre-K I […]

CCF Briefing $15 Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty but Cost Jobs, Congress Told in Report ‘If We Do This Right’ Maybe H.I.V. Will Be Forgotten The End of the Gay-Panic […]

CCF Briefing Glaad’s Bold New Mission: an L.G.B.T. Constitutional Amendment Reefer Madness or Pot Paradise? The Surprising Legacy of the Place Where Legal Weed Began Here’s a look at that […]

CCF Briefing Aid in Dying Soon Will be Available to More Americans. Few Will Choose It. Girl on a Red Dirt Road A ‘Second Chance’ After 27 Years in Prison: […]

CCF Briefing Why Women, but Not Men, Are Judged for a Messy House Two newlyweds kiss in the back of a car. Page-Turner People Are Still Getting Married, and This […]

CCF Briefing This will be the last CCF Briefing until the week of July 8th. What a ‘Living Wage’ Actually Means Savings Accounts for Disabled Americans Catch On, but Slowly […]

CCF Briefing Seeking Refuge, Legally, and Finding Prison Are We Fighting a War on Homelessness? Or a War on the Homeless? Could Prostitution Be the Next Vice to Be Decriminalized? […]

CCF Briefing ‘A plunder of black wealth’: Predatory housing contracts gouged Chicago’s black homeowners, new report says Single Mothers Are Surging Into the Work Force By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER AND […]

CCF Briefing There’s Evidence on How to Raise Children, but Are Parents Listening? Can Data Ward Off College Debt? New Strategy Focuses on Results By KEVIN CAREY Sex education: Why […]

CCF Briefing This Is Why Modern Parenting Is So Damn Hard Racial and ethnic estimates of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in the United States (2015–2060) in adults aged ≥65 […]

CCF Briefing U.S. Births Fall to Lowest Level Since 1980s Religiously unaffiliated voters are leading U.S. politics into uncharted waters The New Long-Distance Relationship Why the Government Pays Billions to […]

CCF Briefing Can We Live Longer but Stay Younger? The Trouble With Fathering 114 Kids Capital punishment and death row inmates: A research roundup Housing practices and black wealth The […]

CCF Briefing Why Can’t Men Say ‘I Love You’ to Each Other? Anita Hill: Let’s Talk About How to End Sexual Violence What Do New State Abortion Laws Really Mean […]

CCF Briefing The $100 trillion question: What to do about wealth? Weeding Out Dubious Marijuana Science Standing Against Psychiatry’s Crazes Netflix  and Suicide: The Disturbing Example of “13 Reasons Why” […]

CCF Briefing The Myth of Testosterone The Thin Line Between Surgery and Mutilation By AFSHAN JAFAR The American Family Makes This Country Great, and It’s in Danger By JANET MURGUÍA […]

CCF Briefing Supporters  of abortion rights should be energized, not demoralized Big Labor’s Big Shrink Is the Immediate Playback of Events Changing Children’s Memories? In Month After ‘13 Reasons Why’ […]

CCF Briefing America’s majority minority future The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black. The Home Buyers Are Mostly White. Immigrants for the Heartland How the Upper Middle Class Is Really Doing Alabama’s […]

CCF Briefing Nearly 8,000 Boy Scout Leaders Have Been Accused of Sexual Abuse Since 1944, Researcher Found Parenting Like an Economist Is a Lot Less Stressful Parenting Looks Nothing Like […]

CCF Briefing The Data All Guilt-Ridden Parents Need America’s Invisible Pot Addicts The Military Wants Better Tests for PTSD. Speech Analysis Could Be the Answer. More Benches, Special Goggles: Taking […]

CCF Briefing The Life and Death of a Wildly Popular Baby Sleeper Can London’s Knife-Crime Crisis Be Stopped? Want to succeed in college? Spend more time playing video games with […]

CCF Briefing One Teenager Killed Himself. Six More Followed. Murders by Intimate Partners Are on the Rise, Study Finds CBD Lures Stressed-Out Parents Looking to Unwind Native American Women Are […]

CCF Briefing You Are Not as Good at Kissing as You Think. But You Are Better at Dancing. Why Do We All Have to Be Beautiful? How Old Is 37? […]

CCF Briefing What’s Life Like as a Student at U.S.C.? Depends on the Size of the Bank Account. Short of Workers, U.S. Builders and Farmers Crave More Immigrants America’s Biggest […]

CCF Briefing It’s Dangerous to Be a Boy No progress in the achievement gap in 50 years, new study says Abuse of ‘extended time’ on SAT and ACT outrages learning […]

CCF Briefing No progress in the achievement gap in 50 years, new study says Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students That They Do Not Belong Why White School Districts Have […]

CCF Briefing How Parents Are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood Can TV Dumb You Down? 11 Premature Babies Die in Less Than a Day in Tunisian Hospital, Sparking Outrage From […]

CCF Briefing Pregnancy was overlooked by scientists for years. Now it’s finally getting the attention it deserves. The 11-year-old Argentine girl is not alone. Latin America’s abortion laws are a […]

CCF Briefing The Opioid Crisis Isn’t White England Greatly Expands Sex Education, Despite Some Parents’ Protests California court ruling could deter college students from reporting sexual assault Biggest winners and […]

CCF Briefing When Schools Tell Kids They Can’t Use the Bathroom The ‘Hidden Mechanisms’ That Help Those Born Rich to Excel in Elite Jobs Well-meaning offers to help someone who’s […]

CCF Briefing Who Needs Gender? Why Men and Women Are Dressing Identically On-Demand Grandkids and Robot Pals to Keep Senior Loneliness at Bay ‘Day Care For All’: How America Views […]

CCF Briefing What research says about teachers unions Do You Want to Be Pregnant? It’s Not Always a Yes-or-No Answer The Link Between Menopause and Alzheimer’s The stark divide in […]

CCF Briefing Why are out-of-work men so unhappy in the US? At major colleges, sexual assaults most likely off-campus Intimacy and sex are important for well-being for older adults For […]

CCF Briefing The Nightmare of Human Organ Harvesting in China ‘This One Here Is Gonna Kick My Butt’—Farm Belt Bankruptcies Are Soaring Doctors Surprised by Scope of Adult-Onset Food Allergies […]