In a new brief, Early Childhood Policy Focus: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity, Child Trends reviews recent data and current research on nutrition and exercise habits of young children under the age of six.
The Population Research Center (PRC) at The University of Texas at Austin will have two openings for NICHD-funded postdoctoral positions starting September 1, 2012.
for a study on The Effects of Religious Variance in Working with Sexual Minorities
September 13, 2011
You are being invited to participate in this project entitled The Effects of Religious Variance in Working with Sexual Minorities (lesbians and gay males).
by Judith A. Seltzer, Professor, Department of Sociology and California Center for Population Research, UCLA. seltzerj@ucla.edu
I believe that we need new U.S. data to answer the following questions: When do parents and adult children help each other? Why do they help? How do they help? And what difference do intergenerational ties make for individual family members?
by Ingrid Arnet Connidis, Ph.D., the University of Western Ontario
Occasionally a concept comes along that resonates with the research community. A recent example is the idea of ambivalence. Despite some reservations, an impressive array of studies has used ambivalence in creative and thoughtful ways to enhance our understanding of intergenerational relations.
