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News from CCF: For America’s Children, Family Diversity is the New Normal
9.04.14 – A new report prepared for CCF by University of Maryland’s Philip Cohen uses a novel analysis of children’s family arrangements from the 1880s to the present to show that family diversity—no majority family form and no typical mom—is the norm for kids today.
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Family Diversity is the New Normal for America's Children
9.04.14 – People often think of social change in the lives of American children since the 1950s as a movement in one direction – from children being raised in married, male-breadwinner families to a new norm of children being raised by working mothers, many of them unmarried. Instead, we can better understand this transformation as an explosion of diversity, a fanning out from a compact center along many different pathways.
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The 2014 CCF Conference, held on April 25-26, 2014 at the University of Miami, addressed how digital technologies are changing contemporary family life.
04.26.14. CCF is pleased to share highlights from its 17th Annual Conference, titled “Families as they really are: How technology is changing the way families live and love.”
News from CCF: For America’s Children, Family Diversity is the New Normal
9.04.14 – A new report prepared for CCF by University of Maryland’s Philip Cohen uses a novel analysis of children’s family arrangements from the 1880s to the present to show that family diversity—no majority family form and no typical mom—is the norm for kids today.
Family Diversity is the New Normal for America's Children
9.04.14 – People often think of social change in the lives of American children since the 1950s as a movement in one direction – from children being raised in married, male-breadwinner families to a new norm of children being raised by working mothers, many of them unmarried. Instead, we can better understand this transformation as an explosion of diversity, a fanning out from a compact center along many different pathways.
The 2014 CCF Conference, held on April 25-26, 2014 at the University of Miami, addressed how digital technologies are changing contemporary family life.
04.26.14. CCF is pleased to share highlights from its 17th Annual Conference, titled “Families as they really are: How technology is changing the way families live and love.”
Featured CCF Member
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Philip A. Cowan is Professor of Psychology, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as Director of the Clinical Psychology Program and the Institute of Human Development. In addition to authoring numerous scientific articles, he is the author of Piaget with Feeling (Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1978), co-author of When partners become […]
Topics of Expertise: Counseling Families / Family Therapy / Parenting & Child Welfare