2017 Full Conference Schedule (PDF)
Below, find details about each session planned for the 2017 NCFR Annual Conference, Nov. 15-18 in Orlando, Florida. We have also created a series of sessions sorted by NCFR sections and interest areas.
Session pages will include presentation slides or handouts if the presenter(s) chose to make them available.
Sarah Mitchell, Antoinette M. Landor, Alaysia Brown, Steven Berkley, M.A., Ph.D., Antoinette M. Landor; Discussants: Tera Hurt Jordan and Antoinette M. Landor; Organizer/Facilitator: Antoinette M. Landor
This symposium investigates these issues in hopes of reframing the narrative in research on people of color to focus on the critical influence of skin tone on romantic relationships and family dynamics.
Autumn Bermea, Brad van Eeden-Moorefield, Jackie Bible, Hannah Karpman, Ray Petren, Jaycelle Basford-Pequet, Kristen E. Benson, Reihonna L. Frost, Abbie E. Goldberg, Jackie Bible; Discussant: Ramona Faith Oswald; Chair: Brad van Eeden-Moorefield
This symposium examines these processes across five different intersections of queer families: stepfamilies headed by a gay male couple, interracial lesbian couple, parents with gender non-conforming youth, queers couples who adopt, and queer parents who used a known sperm donor.
Alan Taylor, Mihaela Robila, Catherine Solheim, Shann Hwa Hwang, Karen Myers-Bowman, Isaac CJ Falcon-Campos; Co-chairs: Alan C. Taylor
This symposium is designed to examine how Family Life Education (FLE) is designed, delivered and practiced across the globe. First, the concept of “culture” will be re-examined, and then scholars from four distinct countries will each discuss the current state of FLE practices that exist within their borders.
Sharon Boland Hamill, Melinda S. Kavanaugh, Hyunjin Noh, Sara M. Moorman, Deborah Carr, Adam Shapiro, Teresa M. Cooney, Channing E. Tate; Discussant: Debra Dobbs; Session Organizer and Chair: Teresa M. Cooney
Symposium organized by the Research and Theory Section on aging. Topics include supporting young caregivers, patients with Huntington's disease, relationship quality, and parents' end-of-life planning.
Maria L. Boccia, Paul Lanier, Samantha M. Brown, Kimberly Bender, Julie S. McCrae, Rebecca Orsi, Jon Phillips, Shauna Rienks; Discussant: Jay A. Mancini; Chair: Anne Farrell
This symposium includes three papers on toxic stress, which is the chronic experience of adversity absent the presence of a nurturing figure who can buffer these experiences. This session will be live streamed.
(Made possible with the support of Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago)
Kristina Lopez, Sandra Magaña, Wendy Machalicek, Samantha E. Goldman, Judith M. S. Gross; Discussant: Meghan Burke; Facilitator: Anne Farrell
Invited symposium on family policy and disabilities, organized by Family Policy and Families and Health Section. This session will be live streamed.
Jennifer L. Bellamy, Neil B. Guterman, Aaron Banman, Sandra Morales-Mirque, Justin Harty, Young-Il Kim, Sung Joon Jang, Bright Sarfo, Erin K. Holmes, Alan J. Hawkins, Braquel R. Egginton, Nathan Robbins, Kevin Shafer; Discussant: Jessica Pearson; Convenor: Jay Fagan
The results of three randomized control trials examining the effects of fatherhood interventions on low income, primarily unmarried fathers will be presented. The fourth paper will present the findings of a meta-analysis of existing evaluations of fatherhood programs.
Karen Bogenschneider, Thomas Corbett, Emily Parrott, Patricia Strach, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Elizabeth Day, Jacquelyn Thomas-Miller; Chair: Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth
This session previews a special issue of the Journal of Family Theory and Review that will consider what it will take for family policy to achieve firmer footing as a field of inquiry, particularly in the current political climate. This session will be live streamed.
Amanda Pollitt, Allen Mallory, Jessica Fish, Shane Kavanaugh, Ashley Taylor, Greta Stuhlsatz, Tricia Neppl, Brenda Lohman, Samuel H. Allen, Leigh Leslie, Brenda Lohman; Discussant: Stephen T. Russell; Chair: Shane Kavanaugh
The purpose of this symposium is to provide insight to the impact community and family level predictors have on overall well-being among LGB+ people of color from adolescence through adulthood.
Adam Galovan, Brandon McDaniel, Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, Melissa A. Barnett, Melissa A. Curran, Olena Kopystynska, Alexandria A. Pech, Shannon M. Warren, Katherine Paschall; Discussant: Bharathi Zvara; Co-chairs: Melissa A. Barnett
The goal of this symposium is to advance research on complex links between parenting and coparenting among families raising children. In the three papers, the authors tackle this goal by using different analytical approaches.
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