New and Noteworthy
Board member Jake Otis covered new research from Daniel Meyer and Yoona Kim that found that most noncustodial parents are actually satisfied with the child support system, especially if they know the name of a child care worker they can call with questions.
Worth a Read, Sociologically Speaking
Our Hannah Schwendeman rounded-up research on the challenges of mothering in poverty, particularly given the limitations and stigma associated with the welfare system in the United States.
Citings and Sightings
Minnesota Public Radio’s Angela Davis spoke with sociologist (and UMN alum) Amy Blackstone about why more people are choosing not to have children.
Backstage with TSP
As always, we’re working on some super-secret projects behind the scenes that we’re not quite ready to announce yet. What we can say is one of our initiatives this semester involves connecting current board members with TSP alums. We’re excited to help build connections based on shared interests and expertise. A strength of ours has always been our amazing graduate board and it is a credit to our longevity that we can now create a network that links board members past and present and across career stages!
More from Our Partner and Community Pages
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies’ contributor Henning Schroeder wrote on how controversy in France demonstrates increasing European obsession with flags as nationalist symbols.
Also for CHGS, Catherine Guisan wrote about why we should all care about the shuttering of two Russian NGOS that documented human rights abuses. Meyer Weinshel wrote on Holocaust remembrance day on how the end of the Holocaust was not immediate but, rather, long and uncertain.
Judith R. Smith wrote for the Council on Contemporary Families’ blog on the often-overlooked experiences of older mothers parenting difficult adult children.
Monte Bute wrote for his blog, backstage sociologist, on how his brushes with mortality inspire him to seek new homes for his expansive book collection.
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