NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FAMILY ISSUES

描述：（根据申请人的描述改编）本提案 要求五年（1999年至2003年）的支持宾州国家家庭 问题研讨会，旨在关注的跨学科年度会议 关注在理解方面重要的未充分研究的问题 家庭结构和功能及其对发展的影响 儿童和青年。该提案建立在每年一次的五年传统之上。 宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口学院的教师共同组织的研讨会 研究所（布斯）和人类发展和家庭部 研究（Crutter），并得到以下机构的额外智力和财政支持： 许多其他部门和学院。 系列研讨会的目标是（1）促进跨学科 （2）促进家庭问题的学术对话， （3）确定家庭领域有希望解决的问题， 这些研究没有得到研究人员的足够重视， 通常不会被专业协会、基金会或 其他企事业单位提供希望系列研讨会能够“跳跃式启动” 在重要但未充分研究的领域进行研究。

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.