* In a recent Daily Beast article, CCF co-chair Stephanie Coontz explores how straight marriage's evolution led to Obama's gay marriage endorsement.

* Barbara Risman, CCF executive officer, explores the experience of working moms in a Christian Science Monitor article.

* CCF Board member Adina Nack's blog post examines Sex, Drugs, and the Rocky Road of the HPV Vaccination.

* Barbara Risman is awarded the Society Pages Media Award for Measured Social Science for her CNN Opinion article discussing how the "mommy wars" that have cropped up repeatedly this campaign season are a figment of political pundits' imagination.

* In a new report to CCF for Older Americans Month, New York University researchers Eric Klinenberg, Stacy Torres, and Elena Portacolone report on the unprecedented movement of the elderly toward solo living.

* CCF is proud to announce the release of its Unconventional Wisdom 5^th Annual Edition that features 37 new findings about children, mothers, economics, sex and more.

* Stephanie Coontz, CCF board member, describes the realities behind the rhetoric of American women balancing work and life on Bill Moyers. 

* A new Slate article features the findings of CCF members and NYU sociologists Paula England and Jonathan Bearak, demonstrating that college-educated women are, for the first time, much more likely to marry than women who dropped out of high school.

* In a Washington Post Article, CCF member Jennifer Glass discuss how women "never think of themselves as doing a good job as a parent or spouse by bringing home money."

* CCF announces its internship program, which offers students and recent graduates the opportunity to contribute to a project related to CCF's mission of providing the press and public with the latest research and best-practice findings about American families.

The Council on Contemporary Families offers a number of resources for classroom use.

The Cherlin-Cowan-Burton report, "When is a Fact a Fact?", will challenge students to think more critically about the information they encounter in the classroom and in everyday life. Access the three-part report here:

Cherlin: Why It's Hard to Know When a Fact is a Fact
Cowan and Cowan: When is the Relationship Between Facts a Causal One?
Burton: When Does an Interview Dig Deep Enough?

Fact sheets released by the Council will dispel common myths and provide students with an accessible introduction to new topics. These include (but are not limited to):

Valentine's Day Fact Sheet on Sexual Health
Mother's Day Fact Sheet on Daycare
Myths and Realities About Same Sex Families

Browse our Publications for other fact sheets and briefing reports.

See also the new CCF anthology, Families as They Really Are (W.W. Norton 2010), designed for the undergraduate classroom. The anthology brings together original essays written by leading family scholars, as well as news articles about these findings, enabling students to see how scholars engage with the mass media and help to shape the public conversation about families.

2012 Council on Contemporary Families Annual Conference

co-sponsored by
The University-Based Child and Family Policy Consortium

 

Crossing Boundaries: Public and Private Roles in Assuring Child Well-Being

Friday, April 27 and Saturday, April 28, 2012
Chicago, IL (Crowne Plaza Chicago Metro)

• Conference Program (With links to Powerpoint Presentations)
• About the Sponsors

Hosted by:

UIC Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Science and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs

Additional UIC Co-sponsors

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Gender & Women's Studies Program
Honors College
Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement
Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
Jane Addams College of Social Work
Office of Faculty Affairs
Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Affairs
Urban Health Program, College of Nursing

Additional Consortium Co-Sponsors

Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University,
Center for Family Resilience, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
Schubert Center for Child Studies, Case Western Reserve University