Announcements:
Council on Contemporary Families honors three journalists for outstanding coverage of family issues CHICAGO, March 17, 2009. The Council on Contemporary Families was pleased to present its Seventh Annual Media Awards on Friday, April 17th at its annual conference in Chicago, Illinois.
CCF 12th Annual Conference: April 17 and 18, 2009 at the University of Illinois, ChicagoThe CCF 12th Annual Conference, "Relationships, Sexuality, and Equality: How Far Have We Come?" was held on April 17-18 at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The conference attracted national media coverage and featured cutting-edge panels on changes
in masculinities, femininities, and relationships. A special feature was the keynote address by Johns Hopkins
sociologist Andrew Cherlin, who launched his book, "The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today," which
examines the cultural contradictions caused by the high value Americans place on both marriage and
individualism.
PowerPoint slides from the conference are forthcoming.
UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM: A SURVEY OF RECENT RESEARCH AND CLINICAL FINDINGS ON GENDER, FAMILIES AND EQUALITYPREPARED FOR THE COUNCIL ON CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES' 12TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO AT ILLINOIS
APRIL 17-19, 2009
EDITED BY JOSHUA COLEMAN, SENIOR FELLOW, COUNCIL ON CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES, AND STEPHANIE COONTZ, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH AND PUBLIC EDUCATION, COUNCIL ON CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES
