Penn State Family Issues Symposium

说明(由申请者提供)：这项建议要求为宾夕法尼亚州立大学家庭问题研讨会再提供五年的支持，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年发展的影响方面重要的未被研究的问题。该提案建立在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)的教职员工共同组织的11年来的年度研讨会传统的基础上，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。 这项建议的目标是：(1)促进跨学科对话，促进对家庭问题的研究。(二)推动学术过硬。(3)找出家庭研究领域有希望的问题，这些问题没有得到研究人员的足够重视，而这些问题通常不是专业学会、基金会或政府机构所涵盖的。

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.