NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FAMILY ISSUES

描述：(根据申请者的描述改编)本提案 请求为宾夕法尼亚州立大学国民家庭提供五年(1999-2003)的支持 问题研讨会，一年一度的跨学科会议，旨在 注意研究不足的问题，这些问题在理解方面很重要 家庭结构和功能及其对儿童发展的影响 儿童和青年。这项提议建立在每年一次的五年传统上 由宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口教职员工共同组织的研讨会 研究所(Booth)和人类发展与家庭部 研究(CRouter)，提供额外的智力和财政支持 还有许多其他系和学院。 研讨会系列的目标是：(1)促进跨学科 促进对话和促进对家庭问题的研究；(2)促进学术研究 卓越，以及(3)确定家庭领域中有希望的问题 没有得到研究人员足够重视的研究，以及 通常不会被专业协会、基金会或 政府机构。人们希望这次系列研讨会能“迅速启动”。 在重要但研究不足的领域进行研究。

DESCRIPTION: (Adapted from the Applicant's Description) This proposal requests five years (1999-2003) of support for the Penn State National Family Issues Symposium, an annual interdisciplinary conference designed to focus attention on under-studied issues that are important in terms of understanding family structure and functioning and their impact on the development of children and youth. The proposal builds on a five-year tradition of annual symposia that have been co-organized by faculty from Penn State's Population Research Institute (Booth) and Department of Human Development and Family Studies (Crouter), with additional intellectual and financial support from numerous other departments and colleges. The goals of the symposium series are (1) to promote interdisciplinary dialogue and to stimulate research on family issues, (2) to promote scholarly excellence, and (3) to identify promising issues in the field of family studies that are not receiving sufficient attention from researchers and which would not ordinarily be covered by professional societies, foundations, or government agencies. The hope is that the symposium series will "jump start" research in important, but understudied areas.