COUNCIL ON CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES MEDIA AWARDS: Press release

The Council on Contemporary Families [CCF] will present its Fourth Annual Media Awards on May 13th at 12:15 at the Embassy Suites Hotel at Boston's Logan Airport. The winners are writer, editor and speaker Peggy Orenstein and John Cloud, a leading young journalist at Time Magazine.

The awards will be followed by a luncheon at which Stephanie Coontz, Professor of History at The Evergreen State College, will preview her forthcoming national book tour for "Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage," and Steven Mintz, CCF Co-Chair and Professor of History at the University of Houston, will discuss his new book "Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood." Complimentary copies of each book will be available to the press.

The 2005 Award for Outstanding Coverage of Change in America's Families will be awarded to John Cloud, reporter for Time Magazine, for his article on "The Battle Over Gay Marriage." This award reflects the committee's recognition that in the past year a multitude of important family-related issues have played out against the backdrop of gay marriage: the way families are valued, the boundaries between public and private life, and the tension between fundamentalist ideologies and fundamental fairness. Jurors were impressed by the scope of Cloud's research and his balanced approach to an enormously complex and nuanced topic.

The 2005 Award for Outstanding Coverage of Family Diversity will be awarded to Peggy Orenstein for her article in The New York Times Magazine: "The Other Mother". As the article's subtitle recounts, "K. Provided the Eggs, Her Lover the Womb and for Nearly Six Years the Two Women Raised the Twin Girls Thus Conceived. But When the Women Broke Up, K. Learned How Fragile the Definition of Motherhood Could Be." Orenstein's moving portrait of this family is drawn against a deeply thoughtful analysis of parenthood as a cultural [rather than biological] construct and the legal and emotional hazards confronted by parents in this fast-changing arena.

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