Penn State Family Issues Symposium

该提案要求为宾夕法尼亚州立大学家庭问题研讨会提供额外五年的支持，这是一个年度跨学科会议，旨在关注在理解家庭结构和功能及其对儿童和青少年发展的影响方面重要的未充分研究的问题。该提案建立在由宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口研究所（布斯）和人类发展和家庭研究部（克鲁特）的教师共同组织的年度研讨会的十一年传统之上，并得到了许多其他部门和中心以及NICHD的额外智力和财政支持。 该提案的目标是：（1）促进学科间对话，并促进对家庭问题的研究。(2)以促进学术卓越。(3)确定家庭研究领域中没有得到研究人员足够重视的有前途的问题，这些问题通常不会被专业协会，基金会或政府机构所涵盖。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests an additional five years of support for the Penn State 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 an eleven-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 centers and NICHD. The goals of this proposal are: (1) To promote interdisciplinary dialogue and to stimulate research on family issues. (2) To promote scholarly excellence. (3) To identify promising issues in the field of family studies that are not receiving sufficient attention from researchers that would not ordinarily be covered by professional societies, foundations, or government agencies.