July

Watch Legacy Washington historian Bob Young interview CCF's Stephanie Coontz, an expert on family and marriage whose writing influenced the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage.

Although children appear to be less vulnerable than adults to serious COVID-19 medical complications, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that they are disproportionately endangered by the pandemic’s economic toll. Households with children have seen significant increases in housing insecurity and food insufficiency.

Parents often rely on their networks for child care, but how has that changed since COVID-19? CCF’s Executive Director Jennifer Glass has some thoughts in The Christian Science Monitor’s “‘I can’t keep this up much longer’: Parents struggle with pandemic strain.”

CCF experts Dan Carlson, Richard Petts, and Joanna Pepin discuss the findings of their latest brief report on gendered division of labor during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stephanie Coontz's thoughts on the challenges mothers are facing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.