ECONOMIC WOES = FAMILY STRESS
Job and income loss, spiraling gas prices, and growing residential
insecurity top the list of sources of family stress, according to a
briefing report presented today to the Council on Contemporary
Families. "Families and the Current Economic Crisis," submitted by
Evergreen State College Professor Stephanie Coontz and CCF research
intern Valerie Adrian, examines the maelstrom of financial dilemmas
facing Americans today, along with the far-reaching human impact. We
know financial stress is bound to family stress; Coontz and Adrian
report what that family stress looks like in today's economy. (Update: July 23, 2008)
Last Modified 2008-08-24
'Traditional' Marriages Now Less Stable Than Ones Where Couples Share Work and Household Chores
By Lynn Prince Cooke
Let's face it: The road to happily-ever-after is pitted with potholes. Children, finances, and in-laws can all put stress on a marriage. But what about who cleans the floor? This matters, too. A survey released this week by the Pew Research Center shows that most Americans now regard sharing household chores as more vital to a good marriage than such traditional measures of marital success as having children. This does not mean couples are neglecting their kids. Indeed, both moms and dads are now spending more time with their children than in 1965, the heyday of the female homemaker.
Last Modified 2008-07-29
Military Child Care: A Government Success Story
Coontz and Macdermid
Last Modified 2008-06-23
CCF Mother's Day Fact Sheet on Day Care
by Valerie Adrian and Stephanie Coontz
CCF Mother's Day Fact Sheet on Day Care
Last Modified 2008-06-23
The Impact of Divorce on Children's Behavior Problems
Allen Li
A discussion paper prepared for the 11th annual conference of the
Council On Contemporary Families, April 25-26, 2008, University of
Illinois, Chicago
Last Modified 2008-07-21
Where Are Your Tax Dollars Going?
Cherlin, Waldfogel, Iversen, and Folbre
It's April 15: Do You Know Where Your Income Tax Dollars
Are Going?
Last Modified 2008-05-20
Men's changing contribution to housework and child care
Sullivan, Gurion & Coltrane
For thirty years, researchers studying the changes in family dynamics since the rise of the women's movement have concluded that, despite gains in the world of education, work, and politics, women face a "stalled revolution" at home. According to many studies, men's family work has barely budged in response to women's increased employment. The typical punch line of many news stories has been that even though women are working longer hours on the job and cutting back their own housework, men are not picking up the slack.
Last Modified 2008-05-20
Recent Changes in Fertility Rates in the United States: What Do They Tell Us about American's Changing Families?
Steven Martin
Last Modified 2008-07-29
Steven Martin
Recent Changes in Fertility Rates
in the United States: What Do They
Tell Us about American's Changing Families?
Just in time forValentine's Day, demographer Steven Martin analyzes the latest data onchildbearing trends among American women. In a briefing paper preparedfor the Council on Contemporary Families.
Last Modified 2008-02-12
TEEN PREGNANCY AND POVERTY
Frank F. Furstenberg
Last Modified 2008-01-25
Understanding Low-Income Unmarried Couples with Children
England and Edin
Press release on new study, followed by briefing paper by study’s authors
Paula England and Kathryn Edin
Last Modified 2007-10-22
Unmarried Couples with Children
England and Edin
Chicago, September 24, 2007
Council on Contemporary Families Study:
New findings on low-income couples and unmarried women with children
Why do so many low-income couples postpone marriage but fail to postpone childbearing? Which couples eventually do marry? Why do the rest of the couples break up? How would knowing the answers to these questions affect public policy?
Last Modified 2007-09-24
WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS: EARNINGS AND HOUSEWORK IN DUAL-EARNERS FAMILIES?
Gupta
Chicago, Sept. 4 -- What reduces women's
housework burden? A new study shows that on average it
doesn't have much to do with her husband's help or his
earnings, but how much money SHE earns.
Last Modified 2007-09-04
Unconventional Wisdom
Coleman and Coontz
UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM: A SURVEY OF RESEARCH AND CLINICAL FINDINGS
Last Modified 2008-08-24
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Lang and Risman
A "Stalled" Revolution or a Still-Unfolding One?
The Continuing Convergence of Men's and Women's Roles
By Molly Monahan Lang (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania) and
Barbara J. Risman (University of Illinois at Chicago).
Last Modified 2007-05-14
How Does the U.S. Rank in Work Policies for Individuals and Families?
Heymann, Earle & Hayes
How Does the U.S. Rank in Work Policies for Individuals and Families?
Study of Work Policies in 180 countries: U.S. compares well with others in protecting indvidiual workers against discrimination, but ranks low in protecting workers' family lives.
Embargoed until 1 a.m, Thursday, February 1
Last Modified 2007-01-31
Marriage Reduces Social Ties
Naomi Gerstel & Natalia Sarkisian
We know that partners in a good marriage are, on average, happier and healthier than single or divorced people. But do happy marriages guarantee a happy and healthy society? Not necessarily.
Last Modified 2007-01-01
Are Mothers Really Leaving the Workplace?
Heather Boushey
Last Modified 2006-04-10
Reversing Course: The Impact of 'Faith-Based' Sexual Health and
Family Planning Policies At Home and Abroad
by AnneMarie Murdock, The Evergreen State College January 17, 2006
Recent trends in U.S. sexual education and reproductive health policies threaten to jeopardize the significant progress made during the 1980s and 1990s in improving teen sexual health domestically and HIV/STD infection rates, unwanted pregnancies, and reproductive health care worldwide.
Last Modified 2006-07-19
Tricky Business
Heuveline
Tricky Business of Estimating Divorce: Figuring out Divorce
Rate Not a Quick and Easy Matter
Last Modified 2006-10-06
Will Providing Marriage Rights to Same-Sex Couples Undermine Heterosexual Marriage?: Evidence from Scandinavia
By M. V. Lee Badgett
Last Modified 2008-05-20
Promises and Perils of Proposals to Promote Marriage:
Experts List From Council on Contemporary Families
Pamela J. Smock
Last Modified 2006-04-10
Family Policy in the US, Japan, Germany, Italy and France: Parental Leave, Child Benefits/Family Allowances, Child Care, Marriage/Cohabitation, and Divorce
By CCF Intern Rachel Henneck May 2003
A Briefing Paper Prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families
Last Modified 2006-03-14
Marriage, Poverty, and Public Policy
A Discussion Paper from the Council on Contemporary Families
Prepared for the Fifth Annual CCF Conference, April 26-28, 2002 by Stephanie Coontz and Nancy Folbre
Last Modified 2006-01-07
