New Family Forms in Social Context

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究项目旨在调查新的家庭形式及其对成人、儿童和人口层面的家庭变化的影响。它基本上建立在三个前提之上：1)标准的定义和范畴不再足以代表家庭生活的现实；2)静态比较忽略了家庭类型内部和家庭类型之间的转变，这是理解新家庭形式的关键；3)忽视个人形成和改变家庭的环境，错过了理解家庭变化所需要的一个关键部分。本项目密切关注家庭研究中常用类别的异质性，例如，寻找未婚和离婚母亲，同居和已婚双亲家庭，高冲突和低冲突双亲家庭之间的区别。它解决了家庭的动态性质，追踪了家庭类型内部和不同类型之间随时间的变化。此外，它将个人置于影响其态度和行为的家庭、社区和其他社会环境中。它依赖于三个互补来源的新数据：全国家庭增长调查（NSFG）、全国家庭和住户调查（NSFH）和洛杉矶家庭和社区调查（L.A.FANS）。本应用程序中概述的发展计划是专门为实现以下五个目标而设计的：1)掌握基于交互的模型的技能；2)获得调查研究方法方面的专业知识；3)扩大现有研究的范围，包括公共卫生、经济和法律的视角；4)在学术会议上发表新作品，并在主要期刊上发表；5)准备一份资助申请来支持一个独立的研究项目。培训内容包括指导、参加加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的加州人口研究中心（CCPR）、与洛杉矶人口研究小组（L.A.FANS）一起学习调查方法，以及额外的课程。这项研究和培训应用程序建立在过去工作的基础上，扩大了其范围，并为家庭、政策和社会不平等的交叉问题带来了新的工具。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed research project investigates new family forms and their implications for adults, children and the population-level reproduction of family change. It rests fundamentally on three premises: 1) standard definitions and categories are no longer adequate to represent the reality of family life; 2) static comparisons overlook transitions both within and across family types key to understanding new family forms; 3) ignoring the context in which individuals form and transform families misses a crucial piece of what is needed to make sense of family change. This project pays close attention to heterogeneity within categories commonly applied in family research, looking, for example, at distinctions between never-married and divorced mothers, cohabiting and married two-parent families, and high and low conflict two-parent families. It addresses the dynamic nature of families, tracing change over time both within and across family types. In addition, it situates individuals within families, neighborhoods, and other social contexts that affect their attitudes and behaviors. It relies on new data from three complementary sources: the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), the National Survey of Families and Household (NSFH), and the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS). The development plan outlined in this application is specifically designed to accomplish the following five objectives: 1) acquire skills in interactions-based models; 2) gain expertise in survey research methods; 3) expand the scope of current research to include perspectives from public health, economics, and law; 4) present new work at scholarly conferences and publish in leading journals; and 5) prepare a grant application to support an independent research program. Training components include mentorship, participation in the California Center for Population Research (CCPR) at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), an apprenticeship in survey methods with the L.A.FANS, and additional coursework. This research and training application builds on past work, expanding its scope and bringing new tools to bear on questions at the intersection of family, policy, and social inequality.