Transition – Adolescents to Adulthood

Experts

Danni Biondini

LMFT, CIIS

Mia Brantley

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University

Daniel Carlson

Assistant Professor of Family, Health, and Policy in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah

Shauna Cooper

Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Robert Crosnoe

Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

Christina Cross

Postdoctoral Fellow/Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Rachel Farr

Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky

Paula Fomby

Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research

Frank Furstenberg

Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

Kathleen Gerson

Collegiate Professor of Sociology, New York University

Tyler Jamison

Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire

Arielle Kuperberg

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Sigrid Luhr

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois-Chicago

Anna Manzoni

Associate Professor, North Carolina State University

Joan Maya Mazelis

Associate Professor, Rutgers University-Camden

Laura Napolitano

Associate Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University - Camden

Kate Riera

Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

Barbara Risman

Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago

Sharon Sassler

Professor, Cornell University

Samantha Tornello

Assistant Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Elizabeth Wildsmith

Deputy Program Area Director, Child Trends

Xing Zhang

Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

News

U.S. parents financially support their adult children. But in immigrant families, it’s the reverse.September 19, 2024
Brief report from CCF Early Career Scholar Dr. Vanessa Delgado shows that parental immigration status shapes adult children’s decisions to “give back” in immigrant families.
CCF Experts Kuperberg and Mazelis’ Student Loan Debt Brief Report Featured on North Carolina Public RadioApril 16, 2021
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/ Tweet
The Difference Debt Makes: College Students and Grads on How Student Debt Affects Their Life ChoicesMarch 24, 2021
A new study explores the wide-ranging effects of student loan debt on young adults – and what they would do if they were forgiven.
CCF’s Kuperberg and Walker Publish New Research on College HookupsApril 20, 2018
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
Turns Out It’s Not How You Feel: It’s How You LookDecember 10, 2013
A new briefing report for the Council on Contemporary Families documents how the way you look affects your life prospects.
Experts Respond to: “In School, Good Looks Help and Good Looks Hurt (But They Mostly Help)”December 10, 2013
Experts respond to a new briefing report for the Council on Contemporary Families that documents how the way you look affects your life prospects.
In School, Good Looks Help and Good Looks Hurt (But They Mostly Help)December 10, 2013
How do your looks affect your life? Is being attractive or unattractive a source of systematic social inequalities in people’s access to wealth, power and privilege? Should we add “beauty bias” to racism and sexism as a type of unacceptable discrimination? A new briefing report for the Council on Contemporary Families documents how the way you look affects your life prospects.
The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What It Means for American SchoolsMarch 13, 2013
According to the current brief report, “the most important predictor of boys’ achievement is the extent to which the school culture expects, values, and rewards academic effort.” Sociologists Claudia Buchmann (Ohio State) and Thomas DiPrete (Columbia University) present their in-depth findings on the much-debated reasons why women outstrip men in education—also the subject of their new book—in “The Rise of Women: The Growing Gender Gap in Education and What it Means for American Schools.”
The Long-Range Impact of the Recession on FamiliesApril 16, 2010
By Valerie Adrian Research Intern Council on Contemporary Families Stephanie Coontz, M.A. Co-Chair and Director of Research and Public Education Council on Contemporary Families Download Full Report as a PDF… Read more: The Long-Range Impact of the Recession on Families