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Kelly Davis, FP Section Secretary/Treasurer

Family Policy Section News

By: Kelly Davis, Section Secretary/Treasurer
February 01, 2012

We had a wonderful Family Policy Section meeting in Orlando! Thanks to all who were able to attend.

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2012 NCFR National Election Results

March 08, 2012

The NCFR membership has elected new national officers who will take office after the 2012 NCFR Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

Congratulations to 2011 Feldman Award Winners Joanna Wu and Rachel Hagues

Kelly Davis, Section Secretary/Treasurer
January 04, 2012

We had a wonderful Family Policy Section meeting in Orlando! Thanks to all who were able to attend. For those who could not make it, the minutes are posted on the NCFR website.

Kelly Davis, FP Section Secretary/Treasurer

Family Policy Section News - December 2011

Kelly Davis, Section Secretary/Treasurer
January 03, 2012

Greetings from the Family Policy Section! We hope all are doing well as the fall semester is coming to a close and as the holiday season is upon us. We would like to take the opportunity to discuss a few things with NCFR members:

 

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Winter 2011 NCFR Report Magazine

Family Focus on LGBT Families

In this issue of NCFR Report, your colleagues examine the many facets of LGBT families.

Judith Seltzer
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Intergenerational relationships: New questions call for new data

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?

Ingrid Arnet Connidis, Ph.D., the University of Western Ontario
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Reflections on intergenerational relations

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.

Marilyn Coleman and Larry Ganong
from Family Focus on Intergenerational Relationships

Who gets custody of Grandma after the divorce?

by Marilyn Coleman, Ph.D. and Lawrence Ganong, Ph.D., University of Missouri

Most Americans agree that "adult children should take care of their parents when they get old." But suppose that your parents divorced when you were 10 years old and your mother moved far away. Would that affect how you would feel about helping her? Would that make a difference to you?

Raeann Hamon
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Building intergenerational relationships via an Elder Service Partner program

by Raeann R. Hamon, Ph.D., CFLE, Distinguished Professor of Family Science and Gerontology; Chair, Department of Human Development and Family Science, Messiah College, rhamon@messiah.edu

Want to enliven your classroom and help students to develop intergenerational relationships? Consider intergenerational service learning!

Marie LaHaye
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Family stress and risk in grandparent-headed households

by Marie LaHaye, M.S. candidate and graduate research assistant, Project HOME, Family & Developmental Studies Program, Colorado State University

Imagine you have just retired from teaching and are looking forward to retirement and pursuing your own interests. Then, one afternoon, you receive a call from social services that your daughter has been arrested, so her two children are being placed in your care. What will you do?

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from NCFR Community Blog

Disaster preparedness and the petrified pantry

By Nancy Gonzalez, CFLE
Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | August 26, 2011

This morning I write with a heavy heart. Hurricane Irene is swirling in the Atlantic. The projected paths as of 8 am on Friday August 26 predict it will hit most of the eastern seaboard beginning tomorrow. Officials are advising evacuation in some areas and voluntary evacuation in others.

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Fall 2011 NCFR Report Magazine

Family Focus on Intergenerational Relationships

In this issue of NCFR Report, your colleagues examine the many facets of intergenerational relationships—the joys and the ambivalence.

Deutsches Jugendinstitut
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International Workshop

The Everyday Life of Multi-local Families, Concepts, Methods and the Example of Post-Separation Families
October 20, 2011 - October 21, 2011
Munich, Germany

This workshop will be held in Munich, Germany on October 20 & 21st, 2011. It’s sponsored by the German Youth Institute.

Child Trends
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Child Trends

What works for early language and literacy development?
August 02, 2011

Child Trends has just released a Fact Sheet on What Works for Early Language and Literacy Development: Lessons from Experimental Evaluations of Programs and Intervention Strategies.

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Summer 2011 NCFR Report Magazine

Family Focus on Transitioning to Parenthood

The theme for this issue of NCFR Report is “Transitioning to Parenthood.” Our colleagues in research, practice, and family life education share their expertise with us. There are many ways in which families experience this transition: as birth parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, LGBT parents, single parents, stepparents, grandparents raising grandchildren, and parents who used assistive reproductive technologies, to name a few. Enjoy this substantial and diverse collection of articles on becoming a parent.