Penn State Family Issues Symposium

描述（由申请人提供）：本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，该研讨会是一年一度的跨学科会议，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研究问题。该提案建立在由宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口研究所（Booth）和人类发展与家庭研究部门（Crouter）的教师共同组织的11年年度专题讨论会的传统之上，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。

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.