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Allison Gibbons
from Family Focus on Immigration / Migration

Changing the discourse on immigrants, culture, race and ethnicity among family scholars

Allison Gibbons, Ph.D., CFLE, Assistant Professor of Family and Child Studies, McNeese State University

Iluminando Program. Free Domestic Violence Curriculum for Working with Faith Communities

The program’s goal is to give these church leaders the background and preparation they need in order to offer variety of domestic violence prevention and intervention activities in their churches and communities.  Please check out the manuals and powerpoints.

Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective

The Second Edition of Families in Global and Multicultural Perspective travels across geographic, cultural, and historical boundaries to explore the diversity of the world's families-in family structure, processes, history, and social and environmental contexts. Editors Bron B. Ingoldsby and Suzanna D. Smith examine a full range of topics including family origin and universality, family functions, marital structure, kinship rules, comparative research methods, family development, marriage adjustment, parenting, divorce, and aging. This comprehensive text increases students' recognition of and respect for cultural diversity as it influences family life; meets educators' needs for a comparative family text; and contributes to the development of new ways of thinking about families that highlights culture and context.

Families in a Global Context

Each chapter in Families in a Global Context describes customary types of family patterns within each country's social organization and culture. Important social, economic, political, and other trends are explored in detail, and major ethnic, religious, or other subcultures are noted emphasizing marriage and family patterns that differ from the more typical ones. The book is extensively referenced and includes tables to clearly present data.

Strong Families Around the World. Strengths-Based Research and Perspectives

The strengths of families from culture to culture, when compared to each other, are remarkably similar and give us common ground around the world upon which to unite and develop mutual understanding. Strengths-Based Research and Perspectives: Strong Families Around the World, provides a conceptual framework for global family strengths, discussing the diverse strengths and challenges that families face regardless of location.

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What Works for Diverse Families?- Audio Recording

Stepfamily Education for Latino Couples and Families: Implications for Practice, Linda Skogrand, Abril Barrios-Bell, Brian Higginbotham

Differences in Relational Outcomes for Marriage Education by Gender and Ethnicity, Angela Bradford, Francesca Adler- Baeder, Cassandra Kirkland, Mallory Erickson, Bailey Lathem, Cassidy Stover, Katherine Efstration, Jonathan Decker, Alexandra Calligas, Thomas Smith, Scott Ketring Brian Higginbotham

Establishing Family Foundations Through Community-based Prevention, Mark Feinberg

Evaluating Prevention Programs: Methods, Results, and Lessons Learned, Melody M. Griffin, Jennifer Kerpelman, Francesca Adler-Baeder, David Schramm

Discussant: Charlotte Shoup Olsen

Presider: Shelba Branscum

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Same-sex Marriage- Audio Recording

Same-Sex Marriage in Canada: A Triumph of Human Rights?

Hilary A. Rose, Ph.D. Marie-France Bureau, Ph.D. will give a presentation on the past (i.e., legal history), the present (i.e., current statistics), and the future (i.e., unresolved issues) with respect to samesex marriage in the Canadian context. Hilary Rose is Associate Professor, Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal.

Marie-France Bureau is assistant professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sherbrooke, family and persons law, focusing particularly on LGBT issues.

Same-Sex Marriage in the U.S.: A Triumph of Human Rights?

Gary J. Gates, Ph.D. will discuss the legal history of marriage and relationship rights in the U.S., talk about demographics of same-sex marriage (how many, broad demographic characteristics), and where he sees the marriage equality movement heading (including how current demographic characteristics of same-sex couples might be affecting that movement).

Dr. Gary J. Gates is the Williams Distinguished Scholar, Charles R. Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy Research Center, UCLA School of Law dedicated to the field of sexual orientation law and public policy.

Facilitator: Ramona Faith Oswald

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Whanau and Family in Aotearoa New Zealand: Bicultural Approaches to Family Research, Policy and Practice - Audio Recording

Like many indigenous peoples, the Maori of New Zealand are a tribal people, and at the heart of tribal life is the whanau, the extended family. Dr. Jan Pryor, Chief Families Commissioner of the New Zealand Families Commission, and Mr. Kim Workman (Ngati Kahungunu), a member of the Commission and retired government official, will discuss specific areas of policy and research and illustrate how cultural worldview determines the way in which research or policy development is undertaken and the cultural values that influence responses.

Facilitator/Presider: Paul R. Amato

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

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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