CRF supports social and behavioral sciences research on issues relevant to families and disseminates findings to scholars, families, practitioners, and policy-makers. CRF Family Research Scholars research areas include:
- interpersonal and intercultural communication
- young children with behavior disorders
- cultural, feminist, and activist anthropology
- social inequality, crime and criminal justice policy
- labor market discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, and gender
- family policies across a range of industrialized nations
- women's health and symptom experience
- bicultural socialization processes for adopted children
- media preliteracy development and academic engagement
- labor policy and their impacts on family
- and much more
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Working Groups
In order to encourage and facilitate greater interdisciplinary research,CRF fosters new collaborative research initiatives by sponsoring regular “working groups” of faculty focused on particular topics of family research. These include:
- The Public Engagement Project (PEP)
- Care, Work & Family Policy Group
- Stress Working Group
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