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.

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.

This session's four papers cover topics including the study of same-sex couples, marriage, Russian couples satisfaction index, and Rasch modeling.

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. 

This is a private meeting of this committee.

Linda Burton will present the Friday plenary session at NCFR 2017, sponsored by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, through its Department of Family Social Science. This session will be live streamed. 

Sponsored by the Regents of the University of Minnesota, through its Department of Family Social Science

All members are invited to attend this annual meeting to hear about NCFR’s activities and ask questions.

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)

This workshop will address the ways that scholars engage and advocate for communities at the local, state, and national level in our professional and personal lives.

86 total posters in this session. Topics include LGBTQ; African-American Families; Sexual Addiction; Feminist Therapists' Experiences of Managed Care; Foster Care and Adoption; plus 14 more topics.

Those interested in becoming a Certified Family Life Educator are invited to attend. Dawn Cassidy will review the process and present helpful tips.

This a meeting for members of the Family Relations Editorial Board only.

Presenters will use roundtables to spark discussion, with one topic at each table. and one panelists at each table. Table leaders will summarize each discussion, review the action items discussed, and facilitate the participants in taking actions to address the topic of the table.

Invited symposium on family policy and disabilities, organized by Family Policy and Families and Health Section. This session will be live streamed. 

Workshop participants will learn about characteristics and components of good quality case studies; strategies for incorporating case study analysis into classroom teaching; and explore different approaches to designing a classroom action research project that will more definitively measure their effectiveness.

This session's four papers cover the topics: sexuality education with young children; parents talking to their kids about sexuality; developmental influences on emerging adults’ sexual identities; and using self-disclosure in a human sexuality classroom.

This session's four papers cover family well-being topics including Consensus and Relationship Satisfaction, Marital Interventions Couple Relationship Education, Foster Caregivers, and Coparenting.

Lightning papers organized by the Families and Health Section on aging. Topics include Marital Quality and Parent-Child Relationship Quality; Partner Support Affects on Poor, Rural Mothers; Partner Communication and Diurnal Cortisol Patterns; and more.

Aging topics covered by these four papers include: support exchanges between middle-aged children and aging parents; hearing impairment, and the role of partner support; and a curriculum for children in grandparent-headed families.

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.

Attendees will understand how to conduct, and present the findings of a survival analysis in a manner that will allow their audiences to understand the results and use them in their own practice or research.

Presidential Address:  “And so, what is NCFR again…?” by William D. Allen, Ph.D., Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, 2015-2017 NCFR President. This session will be live streamed.

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.

This session's four papers cover topics including How HDFS Students Choose a Major; Male Enrollment in Family Science Courses; Determining Job Prospects for Family Science Degree Earners; and more.

Lightning papers organized by the Education and Enrichment Section. Topics include Improvement in Relationship Outcomes Following a Gottman-Based Program; Lessons From Organizing a Multi-county Marriage Celebration; The Use of Technology by Family Educators; and more.

This session's four papers on families and social media cover topics including siblings, adolescent romantic relationships, online risk behavior, and more.