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Adoption Plenary Session - Video Recording

New Worlds of Adoption: Growing Up in Complex Families

In recognition of November as National Adoption Month, Dr. Harold Grotevant will speak on “New Worlds of Adoption: Growing Up in Complex Families,” arguing that contemporary adoption requires that we expand our definition of family, and also necessitates developing theories and methods that will allow us to conduct credible research.

“Shared Fate” in Contemporary Multicultural Adoption Context

Dr. Leslie Hollingsworth addresses the applicability of “shared fate” theory (H. David Kirk) for strengthening contemporary multicultural adoptive families, including those in which domestic transracial, intercountry, and embryo adoptions occur.

Transnational Adoption

Dr. Sara Dorow will speak on “Transnational Adoption,” with particular attention to Chinese-North American adoptions.

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Aging and Kinship- Audio Recording

Overall Wellbeing of Grandparents Rearing Grandchildren in Southwest Virginia

Dr. Tammy Henderson, Associate Professor, CFLE, Oklahoma State University

Dr. Eboni Baugh, Assistant Professor, CFLE, University of Florida

The presenters will cover details of their study Overall Wellbeing of Grandparents Rearing Grandchildren in Southwest Virginia, with attention given to factors such as personal health, diet, and health care and related public policy issues.

Kinship Relations in Cross-Cultural Comparison

Dr. Bernard Nauck, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Dr. Nauck will speak on Kinship Relations in Cross-Cultural Comparison and how the institutional structure of family and kinship systems have a stronger effect on kinship relationships than socio-structural factors or individual family-related attitudes.

Facilitator/Presider: Christine Price

Parenting Piece by Piece

Parenting Piece by Piece is a curriculum guide for a series of eight parenting education sessions and three optional sessions. It was originally designed for use with parents who have been mandated to attend parenting training due to their identification as abusive and/or neglectful parents. The current edition also includes guidelines for adapting the program for use with incarcerated parents or with the caregivers of children whose parents have lost custody. This site provides background information, samples, and ordering information.

Talking with Children When the Talking Gets Tough

Shocking news events, disasters, political violence, and other difficult situations can be difficult to discuss with chidlren. Many adults think children can be shielded from those events, but this fact sheet provides information supporting the importance of keeping communication channels open at those times. Tips are provided for parents to broach difficult topics.

Children as Victims of Natural Disasters

Children and families can be seriously impacted by natural disasters. This fact sheet includes a discussion of how children can be affected by hurricanes, eathquakes, fires, and other natural catastrophes and offers recomendations for parents and other caregivers to communicate with and support children at those difficult times.

Provider-Parent Partnerships

This site is devoted to child care providers joining with parents to support children's well-being. It includes materials and links for childcare providers to build positive relationships with parents along with materials for providers and materials to be distributed to parents. Categories of materials are parent-provider relationships, supporting parents, child growth and development, guidance and discipline, children and learning, family-child relationships, health and safety, and making connections. Several pieces focus on talking to parents or providers about difficult topics..

Judith Stacey and Timothy Biblarz
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Do Children Need Both a Mother and a Father? - Video Recording

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

Daniel Lichter, Ph.D., and Julie Calmalt, Ph.D.
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Cohabitation and the rise in out-of-wedlock childbearing

by Daniel T. Lichter, Ph.D., and Julie H. Carmalt, Ph.D., Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University

Should we therefore be concerned about the accelerated uncoupling of marriage and childbearing? The statistical correlations seem clear. But interpretations also have been made ambiguous by the rise in cohabitation. A growing share - perhaps even a majority share - of children born outside of marriage live with both biological parents.

Robert M. Milardo, Ph.D.
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Other family caregivers for children: aunts and uncles

by Robert M. Milardo, Ph.D., Professor of Family Relations, University of Maine

I did not intend to write a book about aunts and uncles or their nieces and nephews, at least not initially. I began with a simple interest in uncovering instances of men in caregiving roles, other than fathers. My own uncles were positive influences in my life, and I simply wondered if uncles were important in the lives of others.

Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, Ph.D.
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Maternal gatekeeping: listening for the “creeaak”

by Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University

At a recent meeting I was greeted with the exclamation, "Sarah! You have to see this video. The mom had the most horrified look on her face while the dad was interacting with the baby! She could hardly keep from interfering with him while he was dressing the baby!"