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Intersexuality in Families: Beyond Pink and Blue - Audio Recording

In 1 of 1000 births, an infant presents with ambiguous gender physically or chromosomally.  What do professionals and families need to know about thiscondition?

Leader: Sharon Preves, Ph.D., Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology, Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Presider: Stephen Marks

Ralph LaRossa

Ralph LaRossa

Professor, Georgia State University
Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 1975
Specialty Areas: 
  • History of Fatherhood/Motherhood/Childhood
  • War
  • Culture and Cognition
  • Theory
  • Qualitative and Historical Methods

Ralph LaRossa is Professor of Sociology at Georgia State University and the author of Conflict and Power in Marriage: Expecting the First Child; Transition to Parenthood: How Infants Change Families (with Maureen Mulligan LaRossa); Becoming a Parent; The Modernization of Fatherhood: A Social and Political History; and Of War and Men: World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families. He is also the editor of Family Case Studies: A Sociological Perspective, and a co-editor of the Sourcebook of Family Theories and Methods: A Contextual Approach (with Pauline Boss, William Doherty, Walter Schumm, and Suzanne Steinmetz). Dr. LaRossa has received grants from the National Science Foundation (principal investigator) and National Institutes of Health (co-investigator) in support of research on the social realities of fatherhood during the Machine Age (1918-1941) and on the experience of becoming a father in contemporary society.

Tammy Henderson, Ph.D.

Tammy Henderson

Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University
Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1999
Specialty Areas: 
  • Family Policy, Law, and Diversity
  • Foster Care and Kinship Care Concerns
  • Diversity and Disaster Research Related to Older Adults
  • Grandparent Rights and Responsibilities
  • Instructional Approaches to Teaching Family Law and Policy

 

Dr. Tammy L. Henderson, Associate Professor in Human Development and Family Sciences at Oklahoma State University, conducts research in the area of family policy, law, and diversity. She completed her doctoral studies in Human Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State University and earned her other degrees from Louisiana State University. Previously, she was a faculty member at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. As a family policy and law scholar, Henderson has published more than 32 articles and book chapters focused on grandparent rights and responsibilities, foster care, mentoring Black women, and diversity and policies. She also is conducting research on the impact of Hurricane Katrina on older adults, a critical analysis of mass media reports regarding Hurricane Katrina, and Alaska Native grandparents.

from 2010 NCFR Annual Conference
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425
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Board Room 1

International Outreach: Envisioning the Possibilities

Concurrent Sessions 12

Discussants/Co-chairs: Cuiting Li; Sterling Wall

from 2010 NCFR Annual Conference
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422
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Marquette Room 2

Surviving in the Shadows: Latino Migrant and Transnational Families

Concurrent Sessions 12

Discussant and Chair: Bethany L. Letiecq, Presider: Tara Woolfolk

from 2010 NCFR Annual Conference
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417

Poster Session 9

Adolescence, Childhood: Development, and Socialization, Siblings
from 2010 NCFR Annual Conference
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408
8:30 am - 10:00 am | Marquette Room 4

Issues Associated With Dating and Marriage Among African Americans

Concurrent Sessions 10

Discussant: Carolyn Cutrona, Chair: Antoinette Landor, Presider Kami Merrifield

from 2010 NCFR Annual Conference
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407
8:30 am - 10:00 am | Board Room 1

Ethno-cultural Parenting

Concurrent Sessions 10

Facilitator: Elisabeth Maring, Presider: Kelly Campbell