Reporters: Mark Your Calendars for April 16-17, 2010: Council On Contemporary Families Conference
U.S. Newswire › January 29, 2010
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Reporters: Mark Your Calendars for April 16-17, 2010: Council On Contemporary Families Conference
"Families as They Really Are: How Do We Use What We Know?"
Conference Description and Detailed Abstracts BelowCHICAGO, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- How are families really doing? At CCF, family researchers deliver great stories about women and the economy, about men and housework, about the recession and families, and about how sex has changed for all of us, to mention a few recent topics we've addressed in the past several years.But, how do we make use of all this knowledge? The CCF 2010 conference "Families as They Really Are: How Do We Use What We Know," links research to our every day practical and policy questions during a two-day conference at Augustana College, in Rock Island, Illinois, April 16 and 17.The conference also includes a book party to celebrate the release of the Norton anthology, Families as They Really Are, which includes key articles from CCF senior scholars and which was edited by CCF Executive Officer and University of Illinois-Chicago sociology professor Barbara Risman. All conference participants will receive a copy of this new book.You can read the program in detail at www.contemporaryfamilies.org. The conference opens on Friday morning, April 16, with family historian Stephanie Coontz's keynote address: "For Better AND Worse: The Trade-offs and Paradoxes of Family Change." She will be followed by a day and a half of panels, including:-- What Makes for Effective Parenting? -- Family Challenges: Money / Domestic Violence / Adoption /Immigration-- Reducing Divorce--and Divorce's Hostilities-- Family Law and the Justice System: What Practitioners andResearchers Need to Know-- Changing Worlds of Sex and Intimacy: STIs / Infidelity / Sex atMidlife-- Healthy Aging and Intergenerational Families: Poverty / Work /End of LifePanel presentation descriptions are included at the end of this advisory.What you won't find at our conference: Boring paper readingEach year, the CCF conference creates an environment of dialogue and participation. Presenters limit their prepared remarks to t...See the full content of this document
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