Penn State’s 20th Annual Symposium on Family Issues will be held October 8 - 9, 2012.  This year’s symposium is titled, Emerging Methods in Family Research. Advances in research on families will rely on innovations in design, measurement, data collection and data analysis that allow researchers to capture the multi-level complexities of family systems. Sixteen scholars from the social sciences will address the question of whether new and/or alternative approaches are needed to address the complexities of family phenomena.