New Family Forms in Social Context

描述(申请人提供)：拟议的研究项目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再生产的影响。它从根本上取决于三个前提：1)标准的定义和类别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，这是理解新的家庭形式的关键；3)忽视了个人形成和转变家庭的背景，错过了理解家庭变化所需的关键部分。该项目密切关注家庭研究中常用的类别内的异质性，例如，研究从未结婚和离婚的母亲、同居和已婚的双亲家庭以及冲突程度高和冲突程度低的双亲家庭之间的区别。它解决了族的动态性质，跟踪了族类型内和族类型之间随时间的变化。此外，它还将个人置于家庭、社区和其他影响其态度和行为的社会背景中。它依赖于来自三个互补来源的新数据：全国家庭增长调查(NSFG)、全国家庭和家庭调查(NSFH)和洛杉矶家庭和邻里调查(L.A.FANS)。本申请中概述的发展计划旨在实现以下五个目标：1)获得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)扩大当前研究的范围，将公共卫生、经济学和法学的视角包括在内；4)在学术会议上展示新工作并在领先期刊上发表文章；以及5)准备拨款申请，以支持独立研究计划。培训部分包括指导、参加加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)的加州人口研究中心(CCPR)、在洛杉矶联邦储备银行的调查方法方面的学徒培训，以及额外的课程作业。这一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.