Families as they really are

Springing forward from the past: an introduction / Barbara J. Risman and Virginia E. Rutter

One thousand and forty-nine reasons why it's hard to know when a fact is a fact / Andrew J. Cherlin

When is a relationship between facts a causal one? / Philip A. Cowan

Uncovering hidden facts that matter in interpreting individuals' behaviors: an ethnographic lens / Linda M. Burton

CCF brief: the trouble with averages: the impact of major life events and acute stress may not be what you think / Anthony D. Mancini and George A. Bonanno

In the news: when numbers mislead / New York Times

The evolution of American families / Stephanie Coontz

American childhood as a social and cultural construct / Steven Mintz

In the news: a "golden age" of childhood? / Christian Science Monitor

CCF Brief: homesick kids and helicopter parents: are today's young adults too emotionally dependent on parents? / Susan Matt

African Americans and the birth of the modern marriage / Donna L. Franklin

Changing counts, counting change: Americans' movement toward a more inclusive definition of family / Brian Powell, Catherine Bolzendahl, Claudia Geist, and Lala Carr Steelman

In other words: FAFSA form will now recognize college students' same-sex parents / ThinkProgress

Interracial families in post-civil rights America / Kerry Ann Rockquemore and loren Henderson

CCF brief: changes in interracial marriage / Kimberlyn Fong

Families "in law" and families "in practice": does the law recognize families as they really are? / Karen Struening

Childfree families / Amy Blackstone and Amy Greenleaf

CCF facts: aging alone in America / Eric Klinenberg, Stacy Torres, and Elena Portacolone

In the news: loneliness and race in the twilight years / DCentric

New couples, new families: the cohabitation revolution in the United States / Pamela J. Smock and Wendy D. Manning

CCF brief: does premarital cohabitation raise your risk of divorce? / Arielle Kuperberg

Growing up with a lesbian, gay, or bisexual sibling / Amy Brainer

CCF symposium: why interracial marriage is good for black women, and experts in response / Ralph Richard Banks

In the news: Stanford law professor argues black women should cross race barrier for marriage partners / San Jose Mercury News

In other words: the coolest thing about online dating sites / Cyborgology

Life in a dual-earner couple before, during, and after the Great Recession / Shannon N. Davis and Brittany Owen

From outlaws to in-laws: gay and lesbian couples in contemporary society / Robert-Jay Green

In other words: some states see fight for right to same-sex divorce / Associated Press

Independent women: equality in African American lesbian relationships / Mignon R. Moore

Why is everyone afraid of sex? / Pepper Schwartz

First comes love, then comes herpes: sexual health and relationships / Adina Nack

CCF facts: Valentine's day fact sheet on healthy sex / Adina Nack

In other words: can we have the HPV vaccine without the sexism and the homophobia? / Ms. blog

Orgasm in college hookups and relationships / Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Paula England, and Alison C. K. Fogarty

In other words: hooking up as a college culture / Gender & Society blog

In other words: everything you wanted to know about sex and houseword but were too busy to ask / The Washington Post

The marriage movement / Orit Avishai, Melanie Heath, and Jennifer Randles

In the news: how to stay married / The Times of London

CCF brief: promoting marriage among single mothers: an ineffective weapon in the war on poverty? / Kristi Williams

In the news: no, marriage is not a good way to fight poverty / ThinkProgress

The case for divorce / Virginia E. Rutter

In other words: silver linings divorce trend / Family Inequality

Stepfamilies as they really are: neither Cinderella nor the Brady Bunch / Marilyn Coleman and Lawrence Ganong

Beyond family structure: family process studies help to reframe debates about what's good for children / Philip A. Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan

CCF brief: was the war on poverty a failure? Or are antipoverty efforts swimming simply against a stronger tide? / Philip N. Cohen

Parenting adult children in the twenty-first century / Joshua Coleman

In the news: lean times force many bay area "boomerang kids" to return home as adults / San Jose Mercury News

CCF facts: myths of later motherhood / Elizabeth Gregory

In the news: number of "older" women having babies continues to grow / Deseret News

"This is your job now": Latina mothers and daughters and family work / Lorena Garcia

Adoptive parents raising neoethnics / Pamela Anne Quiroz

Parents as pawns: interses, medical experts, and questionable consent / Georgiann Davis

In the news: op-ed: hey, Fox News, intersex is not a punchline / The Advocate

The power of queer: how "guy moms" challenge heteronormative assumptions about mothering and family / Raine Dozier

In other words: dress shopping and gender bending: why I'm wearing a suit and a veil / Offbeat Bride

In other words: the class and race demographics of LGBT families / Sociological Images

The immigration kaleidoscope: knowing the immigrant family next door / Etiony Aldarondo and Edward Ameen

In the news: the picture-perfect American family? These days, it doesn't exist / The Washington Post

When men stay home: household labor in female-led Indian migrant families / Pallavi Banerjee

In the news: an immigrant wife's place? In the home, according to visa policy / Ms. blog

Diverging development: the not-so-invisible hand of social class in the United States / Frank F. Furstenberg Jr.

CCF brief: unequal childhoods: inequalities in the rhythms of daily life / Annette Lareau

Not just provide and reside: engaged fathers in low-income families / Kevin Roy and Natasha Cabrera

In other words: more similarities than differences in study of race and fatherhood / Sociological Images

Mass incarceration and family life / Bryan L. Sykes and Becky Pettit

In other words: doing time = doing gender / Girl w/ Pen!

Betwixt and be tween: gender contradictions among middle schoolers / Barbara J. Risman and Elizabeth Seale

Falling back on plan B: the children of the gender revolution face uncharted territory / Kathleen Gerson

CCF facts: women's education and their likelihood of marriage: a historic reversal / Jonathan Bearak and Paula England

In the news: women say "I do" to education, then marriage / Chicago Tribune

Men's changing contribution to family work / Oriel Sullivan

In the news: it's not just us: women around the world do more housework and have less free time / ThinkProgress

Being "the man" without having a job and/or providing care instead of "bread" / Kristen Myers and Ilana Demantas

CCF symposium: equal pay symposium: 50 years since the equal pay act of 1963 / Stephanie Coontz and Virginia E. Rutter

In the news: Yes, I've folded up my masculine mystique, honey / The Sunday Times of London

In other words: still a man's world: the myth of women's ascendance / Boston Review

Families: a great American institution / Barbara J. Risman.