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CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. Relationships 2.0: When Did Marriage Become So Hard? 2. Cohabitating in the Capital City: percentage of young local couples living together before marriage jumps … Read more

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. When you need your job and your kids need you 2. What happens to family policies like child care, paid leave now? 3. The … Read more

CCF EXPER MEMBERS IN THE NEWS:1. You don’t need to be a parent to build meaningful relationships with kids2. Just Deal With It: Married Same-Sex Couples Deal Better With Stress3. … Read more

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 … Read more

CCF EXPERT MEMBERS IN THE NEWS: 1. The Value of Paternity Leave for Children and Families with Richard Petts, PhD 2. LGBTQ Youth and Young Adults Are Coming Out Into … Read more

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. There Is No Road Map for the Longest Phase of Parenthood 2. Why has child poverty in U.S. fallen dramatically in 25 years? 3. … Read more

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS: 1. New Podcast! This Is Probably A Really Weird Question… 2. The Covid-19 Outbreak and The Flexibility of Remote Work Have Sparked An Explosion of … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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. … Read more

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 … Read more

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’ … Read more

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? … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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? … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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: … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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: … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

  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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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?’ … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

  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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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: … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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: … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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? … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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” … Read more

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 … Read more

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’ … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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? … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more