Members in the News

In a recent roundtable, Deadric and Stephanie try and help us understand why marriage has become so political.

CCF Expert and Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz spoke at the recent opening of Legacy Washington’s “Love, Equally” exhibit.

Maureen talks with host Krys Boyd to discuss “the working conditions of parents who must return to work weeks after giving birth and the challenges they face raising healthy children.”

Dr. Coleman takes part in a discussion on parental estrangement for The Atlantic. Listen here: How to Start Over: Parents Are Not All Good and All Bad

New rankings from Academic Influence rank CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz as the 18th most influential woman historian of the last 10 years. Congratulations, Stephanie!

A new brief report authored by CCF Experts Jennifer Glass and Joanna Pepin was featured in Deseret News and MarketWatch this week. The brief centers around their recent study which… Read more: Recent Brief Report by CCF Experts Glass, Pepin Featured in Deseret News, Market Watch

Click here to listen to WPR’s episode “Why aren’t more younger people getting married?”

CCF Experts Joanna Pepin, Daniel Carlson, Kathleen Gerson, Philip Cohen, and Barbara Risman discuss which policies would be most beneficial to American families.

Read their thoughts on how housing instability impacts children in “Why pausing evictions likely won’t help kids harmed by housing uncertainty and instability”

Stephanie Coontz presented the State of Women’s Rights at Legacy Washington’s 2019 “Ahead of the Curve” event. Watch her talk here!

Read more about why mothers need continuous care even after children are born

Read more here: https://www.wunc.org/2021-04-12/what-would-you-do-without-student-debt-a-study-from-unc-greensboro-put-the-question-to-recent-graduates/ Also, check out this feature in Rutgers-Camden News Now: https://news.camden.rutgers.edu/2021/04/additional-student-loan-debt-cancellations-needed-says-sociologist/

Read his thoughts in his new essay for Aeon, “Modern culture blames parents for forces beyond their control“

Read her op-ed in the Chicago Tribune: “A new Works Progress Administration could create ‘learning pods’ for all schoolchildren.“

“Legacy Washington recently recorded an interview with author/historian Stephanie Coontz. Watch Legacy Washington historian Bob Young interview Coontz, an expert on family and marriage whose writing influenced the U.S. Supreme… Read more: CCF’S Stephanie Coontz Interviewed by Legacy Washington

Parents often rely on their networks for child care, but how has that changed since COVID-19? CCF’s Executive Director Jennifer Glass has some thoughts in The Christian Science Monitor’s “‘I… Read more: CCF’s Executive Director Jennifer Glass on the Struggle for Child Care in a Pandemic

CCF experts Dan Carlson, Richard Petts, and Joanna Pepin discuss the findings of their latest brief report on gendered division of labor during the covid-19 pandemic with Deseret News’ Lois M.… Read more: CCF Experts Featured in The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Deseret News

Read her thoughts on the challenges mothers are facing in “Coronavirus Is Killing the Working Mother”

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… Read more: New MAST Center Brief on Trends in Relationship Formation and Stability

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… Read more: CCF’s Joshua Coleman on Helping Your Family Take COVID-19 Seriously

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”.… Read more: CCF’s Kristi Williams on WHYY Philadelphia

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… Read more: CCF’s Stephanie Coontz for The New York Times: What Can Different-Sex Couples Learn From Same-Sex Couples?

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… Read more: CCF’s Stephanie Coontz on Paying Stay-at-Home Parents in The New York Times

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… Read more: The Seattle Times Profiles CCF’s Own Stephanie Coontz

In her Op-Ed for NBC News, CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz writes about the origins of gendered wedding traditions and possible implications for marital satisfaction. Coontz… Read more: Stephanie Coontz on History of Wedding Traditions in NBC News

For Mother’s Day, the Population Reference Bureau released a report on time use patterns of married, cohabiting and single mothers based on research by CCF Member Joanna Pepin. This researched… Read more: Research by CCF Member Joanna Pepin Featured in Population Reference Bureau Report

JSTOR looks beyond the hype to examine what the “sex recession” is and whether we should be concerned about it. Several CCF experts weighed in on why the fear of… Read more: CCF Experts Weigh in on the “Sex Recession”

In a new opinion piece for CNN, CCF Expert Philip Cohen reflects on the divorce of Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos and sheds light on the burden divorce places on regular… Read more: Divorce is damaging and often unfair, says CCF’s Philip Cohen

According to The Deseret News, CCF experts played a big role in shaping what we learned about the family in 2018 (“Here are 10 things studies taught us about the… Read more: CCF Experts Featured in Review of What We Learned About the Family in 2018

In her piece for Harvard Business Review, CCF Director of Research and Public Education, Stephanie Coontz, writes about a pernicious form of nostalgia – a collective nostalgia that involves people… Read more: CCF’s Stephanie Coontz Writes for Harvard Business Review

New research by CCF Board Member, Arielle Kuperberg, published with CCF Member Alicia Walker in the Archives of Sexual Behavior examines heterosexual college students who hook up with same-sex partners. This… Read more: CCF’s Kuperberg and Walker Publish New Research on College Hookups

New research by CCF members Daniel Carlson and David Cotter is featured in the Deseret News. Carlson and Cotter presented two new reports to CCF about gender differences in household… Read more: Men are helping more around the house and favor more gender equality, new research shows

In an opinion piece for the New York Times, CCF Director of Research and Public Education Stephanie Coontz writes about the importance of cultivating “the skills of successful singlehood.” These… Read more: Stephanie Coontz Writes about Marriage for the New York Times

The third week of September is Unmarried and Single Americans week. In a new opinion piece for CNN, CCF Director of Research Stephanie Coontz reflects on the changes in perceptions,… Read more: Unmarried Americans are Changing Everything, says CCF’s Stephanie Coontz

In a letter to The Wall Street Journal, Ivanka Trump defended the Trump administration’s proposed family leave program, stating that it is not an “entitlement” program, but an “investment” in… Read more: Stephanie Coontz Weighs In On Ivanka Trump’s Defense of Paid Family Leave

CCF President Barbara Risman weighs in on recent findings that millennials want more traditional gender roles at home in a recent article in the GoodCall. Despite these findings, Risman says… Read more: Millennials Aren’t Traditionalists, Says CCF President Barbara Risman

CCF members Daniel Carlson and Amanda Miller respond to new research on declining sexual frequency among American couples. In their Op-ed, they debunk four common myths about couples’ sex lives,… Read more: Daniel Carlson and Amanda Miller Shed Light on Couples’ Sex Lives

Michelle Janning’s recent release, The Stuff of Family Life, offers a timely look at how modern society and technology shapes our relationships and our lives. Like an archaeologist studying ancient… Read more: CCF Chair’s New Book Reveals What Your Underwear Drawer Can Say About You

AUSTIN, Texas — Black Americans are more likely than whites to experience the loss of a parent during childhood and to be exposed to multiple close family member deaths by… Read more: CCF ADVISORY: Debra Umberson reports on African-Americans’ much greater exposure to the early death of close family members

CCF Board Secretary, Kristi Williams, joined All Sides with Ann Fisher to discuss the links between marriage and health in an episode of Wellness Wednesday entitled: Marriage, Prescribing Opioids, Caring for Cancer Patients. This… Read more: Kristi Williams Updates Ann Fisher on the Health Benefits – and Risks – of Marriage

In a new piece for the Conversation, CCF Member Lynn Prince Cooke takes a look back at the history of chauvinism since World War II in order to contextualize the… Read more: CCF member Lynn Prince Cooke gets us conversant on this election cycle’s gender divide

In Why the ‘ethnic’ aisle is merging with the ‘beauty’ one Kristal Brent Zook explains the significance behind the maintstreaming of the black hair care industry.

CCF Board member, Joshua Coleman, was cited in an article for the Wall Street Journal exploring gender differences in the experience of depression: In Men, Depression is Different, by Elizabeth… Read more: Men and Depression, Joshua Coleman Comments for the WSJ

In Issue No. 4 of Berggruen Insights, Stephanie Coontz, CCF’s Director of Research, applies her well honed skills at deconstructing nostalgia to reveal the very real injuries endured by white… Read more: Stephanie Coontz Deconstructs the Nostalgia behind this Election’s Vitriol

Jane Clayson conducts an in-depth interview with CCF Executive Director Jennifer Glass on the findings and implications of her recent cross cultural study on the happiness gap between parent and non-parents. Check… Read more: CCF’s own Jennifer Glass talks ‘on point’ about parental happiness

CCF Director Jennifer Glass‘s briefing on the parental happiness gap in 22 countries received wide coverage in the news and social media. The report identifies policies that have contributed to… Read more: When Momma Ain’t Happy – Everyone Wants to Know Why!

In a Washington Post article, “Young people now more likely to live with parents than partners“, CCF Board Member and Director of Research Stephanie Coontz comments on the positive aspects… Read more: Stephanie Coontz Comments on Adult Child and Parent Cohabitation for WP

CCF members Heather Boushey, Stephanie Coontz, and Nancy Folbre join other prominent feminists in reflecting on the significance of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family for Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism,… Read more: Women Still at Work: CCF members weigh in on Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family

San Antonio Spur David West gave a shout out to Stephanie Coontz’s work in a profile of the athlete, “How David West improved as an NBA player and a person”, in… Read more: Stephanie Coontz gets an Assist from David West

The New Republic has published an introduction to the new version of The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap, by CCF’s own, Stephanie Coontz.

This week, CCF Board Member Josh Coleman sat down with “Knowledge@Wharton” to discuss challenges with multi-generational housing. The interview is available online until March 30 on SiriusXM’s On Demand feature, channel 111. If… Read more: For a Limited Time Only: Josh Coleman is ‘On the Air’ with ‘Knowledge@Wharton’

In a Chicago Tribune commentary, CCF President Barbara Risman and Director of Research Stephanie Coontz reflect on what it means to be a woman – and ‘the’ woman – during the 2016… Read more: CCF President Barbara Risman comments on the US presidential elections in Chicago Tribune

CCF special report: “The Date’s Not Dead After All: New Findings on Hooking up, Dating, and Romantic Relationships in College”, by Arielle Kuperberg and Joseph E. Padgett, features prominently in ‘This… Read more: CCF’s Special Report on Dating by Arielle Kuperberg Gets Picked Up by AJC and NBC

CCF Research Director and eminent expert on the history of marriage, Stephanie Coontz reflects on the blurred meaning of marital status in Single or married: Does it really matter anymore?,  an… Read more: Renowned expert on the meaning of marriage, Stephanie Coontz, opines for the WP

CCF member Linda Nielsen recently received research fan mail from an unusual source, the advertisers at Pantene: “Our creative team… were so inspired by the work you’ve done, it has… Read more: Linda Nielsen’s research on fathers and daughters attracts some Super big fans

In his New York Times opinion piece, Americans Put Too Much Weight in Romantic Love, CCF Board member Josh Colemen comments on the nation’s obsession with romantic relationships – reflecting on examples from the Clinton presidency and… Read more: Josh Coleman and Barbara Risman weigh-in on the nation’s obsession with other peoples’ romances

  RH Fact Check cited CCF members Stephanie Coontz, Nancy Folbre, and Kristi Williams in its review of Jeb Bush’s comments on poverty and marriage, Hard Work and Marriage Aren’t the Magic… Read more: Presidential Candidate Fact Checked by CCF Experts: Stephanie Coontz, Nancy Folbre, and Kristi Williams

CCF Board Member Pepper Schwartz speaks up on behalf of those born at the end of the greatest generation for CCN’s Which generation has it worse?

CCF Board Secretary, Kristi Williams, provides the Huffington Post with her insight on a CDC study of the occurence of sleep deprivation among single parents in: Almost Half Of Single Moms… Read more: Kristi Williams Comments on CDC Report for Huffington Post

CCF Boardmember and Secretary, Kristi Williams, will be the next editor of the  Journal of Marriage and Family. Kristi, a sociologist currently with Ohio State, specializes on the influence of family on… Read more: CCF Congratulates Kristi Williams: Newly Named Editor of JMF

CCF Director Jennifer Glass and Board member Stephanie Coontz join CCF members Ariel Kuperberg and Constance Ahrons in commenting on divorce for Hopes & Fears’s Is Divorce Really That Bad? .

Dr. Young discusses the power of forgiveness in transitioning through grief for the families of the Charleston church shooting.

Check out CCF boardmember Pepper Schwartz’s comments on member Kelly Musick’s report on pre-marital parenting.

CCF Research Director Stephanie Coontz is cited in the SCOTUS decision legalizing same-sex marriage, June 26, 2015. Check out this related story in the Seattle Times.    

The Council on Contemporary Families very own Stephanie Coontz has a column in The Guardian (UK)–the article cites CCF’s April 2nd briefing report on improving men’s uptake of parental leave. Check out… Read more: Check out CCF’s Stephanie Coontz’s article in The Guardian and CNN

Same-Sex Couples May Have More Egalitarian Relationships http://www.wbur.org/npr/373835114/same-sex-couples-may-have-more-egalitarian-relationships National Public Radio (NPR) December 29, 2014  

CFF’s board members, Stephanie Coontz and Phil Cohen discuss the relationship between family structure, race, education and economic inequality in a Washington post article.

CCF’s Dawn Braithwaite was on KFOR’s Lincoln Live radio show discussing children in families with same-sex parents. Listen to the interview on their website (after clicking, scroll down and select “Children in… Read more: Children in families with same-sex parents

Pepper Schwartz, Senior CCF Fellow, shares ways to use Miley Cyrus’s performance on the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards as a teaching moment for parents to talk to teens about sexuality, in… Read more: Pepper Schwartz on CNN: Miley Cyrus as a teaching moment

Joshua Coleman, CCF Co-Chair, was on NPR’s forum and on North Carolina’s KQED Radio discussing parenting and empty nests. It’s late August and flocks of future college freshmen have begun their migration to campuses… Read more: Joshua Coleman on NPR: parenting and empty nests