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Deborah Carr @carrds723.bsky.social · Sep 4

Friend support is a powerful buffer against depression for older adults with health problems - especially among unmarried persons. @geronmedia.bsky.social @asasmh.bsky.social @buciss.bsky.social @nacda-icpsr.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social

Do Friend Support and Strain Moderate the Association Between Physical Limitations and Older Adults’ Depressive Symptoms? - Deborah Carr, Shinae L. Choi, 2025

Stress theories propose that the mental health consequences of physical health problems are buffered by social support and amplified by relationship strain, yet...

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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 24d

🚨 Our new paper (w/ Kausiki Sarma) on housework & marital violence in India is just out!

We provide a "radical" rethinking of housework beyond labour division and gender performance.

@sriucl.bsky.social @wfrn.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social

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The Mundane and the Extreme: Women’s Experiences of Housework and Marital Violence in India - Kausiki Sarma, Yang Hu, 2025

Mainstream theories tend to consider housework a form of labor and its gendered division a result of resource exchange or bargaining and an act of “doing gender...

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Anna Gjika @gjikaphd.bsky.social · 14d

I spoke about adolescent peer cultures, gender norms, and technological harm with the Council on Contemporary Families for @thesocietypages.bsky.social. Thanks @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social and @ariellekuperberg.bsky.social for the invite! #AcademicSky #Sociology

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3Q with Anna Gjika When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age - Council on Contemporary Families

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · Aug 8

What makes a desirable spouse in China?

Our @jmfncfr.bsky.social paper (w/ Jia Yu, @yueqiansoc.bsky.social, Yang Zhou & Yu Xie) draws on a national survey experiment to net out and examine mate preferences among unmarried Chinese & their roles in shaping assortative mating doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library

Objective This study examines unmarried Chinese people's preferred characteristics of a spouse and how the preferences vary by gender and across socioeconomic groups. Background Extensive research.....

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ASA Family Section @asa-family.bsky.social · Aug 11

Coming up later today at the @asanews.bsky.social conference, promoting your family research at 12:30pm, and the family reception/awards ceremony tonight, 6:30-8:30! See you there!

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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · Aug 6

💘 Do apps make dating more efficient?

New in @josoperrel.bsky.social August issue, Manlin Cai, @yueqiansoc.bsky.social & I draw on a temporal lens and in-depth interviews to explore the "efficiency paradox" in how immigrants experience time & efficiency in online dating.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Aug 6

45% of 25-34-year-olds in America had married, had a kid, joined the labor force and lived away from their parents in 1975.

21% of this same age group had achieved these milestones in 2024.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2025/08/milestones-to-adulthood.html

Significant Drop in Share of Young Adults Achieving Four Milestones: Moving Out of Parental Home, Marriage, Work and Having Kids

Less than 25% of 25- to 34-year-olds lived outside their parental home, worked, were married and had kids in 2024, down from almost half in 1975.

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Council on Contemporary Families @ccfamilies.bsky.social · Jun 12

This #FathersDay, flip the script: give your time. A new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief by Daniel Carlson & @pettsric.bsky.social shows that when dads share childcare & housework everyone wins: better relationships, healthier kids, and happier dads. Read more here: sites.utexas.edu/contemporary...

Father’s Day Brief: A Gift for Dad that Benefits the Whole Family

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · Aug 5

Get to know our #ASA2025 host city of Chicago!

Albert S. Fu @novumsimulacrum.com · Aug 4

The Community and Urban Sociology Section's summer newsletter is online. The newsletter features two city spotlight pieces on Chicago, along with a list of section sessions. See you there!

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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · Aug 5

How does child marriage alter women's work-family life courses? How do key interventions fare? Mariam Abouelenin & I look into these Qs – we highlight accelerated transition into adulthood as a key feature of life course transitions in the Global South:
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Rushed into adulthood: Child marriage and women’s work-family life courses in Egypt

Prevalent in the Global South, child marriage powerfully shapes women’s work and family lives. Analyzing data from the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey…

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ASA Family Section @asa-family.bsky.social · Jul 21

Are you coming to the ASA conference? Be sure to stop by the Family section reception and award ceremony on Monday August 11th from 6:30-8:30pm at The Gage, 24 South Michigan Avenue. See you there!

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Jul 3

Here's a paper that thoroughly reviews the economic implications of low fertility AND thoroughly discusses the many options for addressing the potential consequences. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The steady decrease in fertility rates across high-income countries in recent decades has led to population aging and, in some countries, even to population decline and a shrinking workforce. We argue that these trends could have negative economic consequences—in particular, increasing pressures on social security and pension systems, a less innovative society, a slowdown of economic growth, and reduced consumption possibilities for much of the population. These economic consequences of fertility decline have received much attention in the literature and from the media. Here, we argue that economic and social reactions to low fertility such as better education of children, increased labor force participation (particularly of women), increased investments in labor-saving technologies, and later retirement will compensate for some potentially negative economic consequences. In particular, policymakers have scope to react to declining fertility with carefully designed economic policies that utilize complementarities and synergies, including policies that allow families to square family-related responsibilities with work-related responsibilities; policies that ensure socially optimal levels of immigration (with safeguards to protect against undue brain drain); increased investment in the education and health of the next generation, who will be in the workforce over the coming decades and whose productivity is vital in guaranteeing economic prosperity; investments in productivity-enhancing areas such as infrastructure and basic and applied research; and fostering labor force participation of older workers by investing in population health and by modifying retirement policies to encourage later retirement.

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The Social Study @thesocialstudy.bsky.social · Jun 30

Did you know that 22.8% of Belgians care for/provide support to family members who need help due to age, illness or disability?

A striking stat from a recent @reusilience.bsky.social paper by @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social @wvlancker.bsky.social powered by TSS data and proposed as ESS Rotating Module.

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Yue Qian @yueqiansoc.bsky.social · Jun 23

This research brief "Love and Belonging: How Immigrants Find Romantic Partners in Canada” (migration.ubc.ca/publications...) may be of interest to @asa-family.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @news.ubc.ca @migrationcollab.bsky.social @ncfr.bsky.social @contexts.org @theglobeandmail.com

Love and Belonging: How Immigrants Find Romantic Partners in Canada - Centre for Migration Studies

Dr. Yue Qian explores how online dating fosters immigrant belonging by promoting inter-nativity relationships and social integration.

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UNFPA @unfpa.org · Jun 12

Many people ask: "Do you want children?"

But few are asking: “Do you feel able to have children?”

Let @unfpa.org—the #UnitedNations sexual and reproductive health agency—reveal how #TheRealFertilityCrisis is a story of agency and choice, not numbers: unf.pa/fty

The fertility fallacy: Five things you didn’t know about global fertility rates

UNITED NATIONS, New York – “Do you want kids?” Every day, people around the world ask themselves, and others, this question. But it also begs another: “Do you feel able to have children

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Ansgar Hudde @hudde.bsky.social · May 26

🆕📄Journal of Marriage and Family w/ M. Jacob📄

Parenthood in Europe: Not More Life Satisfaction, but More Meaning in Life

Previous research in soc was very focused on satisfaction & happiness.
BUT: many find meaning equally or more important than happiness.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · May 18

94. When total fertility rates dipped below 2.0 in England and Wales in the 1930s, some people blamed the introduction of white bread. (This hypothesis has not been definitively disproven)

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Yeeun Hong @hongciology.bsky.social · May 19

I’m looking for interview participants for my dissertation research!🤓

I am conducting a research study on Asian migrants’ dating and marriage experiences and how these are influenced by US immigration policies.

Please share the flyer with those whom you think might be interested!

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · May 13

Even when you adjust definitions of infant mortality, the US experiences this at far higher levels than its peer nations.

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Figure showing infant mortality rates across countries using countries' own definition vs a uniform definition.

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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · May 13

How do women become relational managers in marriage?

@Aliciamwalker1.bsky.social tells us about this silent labor of love this week @CCFamilies.bsky.social blog hosted by @TheSocietyPages.bsky.social

Check it out: thesocietypages.org/ccf/

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