Timothy Biblarz, Ph.D., University of Southern California, and Judith Stacey, Ph.D., New York University, lead this signature plenary session. In their JMF article in February, Timothy Biblarz and Judith Stacey challenged the idea that “fatherless” children are necessarily at a disadvantage or that men provide a different, indispensable set of parenting skills than women. The article is based on their analysis of relevant studies about parenting, including available research on single-mother and single-father households, gay male parents and lesbian parents.

Discussant: Joseph Pleck, Ph.D., University of Illinois

According to conference evaluations, all who attended this presentation by Wally Goddard at the 2010 Annual Conference shared the same opinion...this was not a speech to be missed if you care about family life education and University outreach.

This video is for you...set aside some time to hear why skills, although the focus of much FLE, are only a small part of what enables people to sustain healthy relationships. Hear more about: perceptual systems and interpretive biases; cultural norms that support or challenge relationships, and processes that family life educators can encourage to help people manage bias, ferret out cultural nonsense, and build strong family relationships.

H. Wallace Goddard, Ph.D., University of Arkansas Extension, 2010 Arcus Award Winner

Presider: Beth Van Horn

Jon Hubbard, Ph.D., LP, is the Director of Research and a psychotherapist at the Center for Victims of Torture. He will dicuss approaches to conducting research, clinical assessment and program evaluation in the torture treatment field and the development of interventions for torture survivors, with a particular emphasis on assessment and programming in resource-poor an post-conflict environments, where so many survivors live.