Penn State Family Issues Symposium

这项提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助，这是一个年度跨学科会议，旨在集中关注研究不足的问题，这些问题对于理解家庭结构和功能及其对儿童和青年发展的影响十分重要。该提案建立在宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口研究所(Booth And Landale)、人类发展和家庭研究部(Crouter-前身PI)和社会科学研究所(McHale)的教职员工共同组织的16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，而且通常不会被专业协会、基金会或政府机构涵盖。

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 a sixteen-year tradition of annual symposia that have been co-organized by faculty from Penn State's Population Research Institute (Booth and Landale), Department of Human Development and Family Studies (Crouter - former PI), and Social Science Research Institute (McHale) 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 and which would not ordinarily be covered by professional societies, foundations, or government agencies.