By National Research Council, Institute of Medicine, Youth, and Families Board on Children, Committee on the Science of Research on Families, Steve Olson
Demographic alterations, immigration, fiscal upheavals, and altering societal mores are growing new and adjusted constructions, techniques, and relationships in American households this present day. As households suffer swift swap, kinfolk technology is on the breaking point of a brand new and fascinating integration throughout equipment, disciplines, and epistemological views. the aim of The technological know-how of study on households: A Workshop, held in Washington, DC, on July 13-14, 2010, used to be to envision the extensive array of methodologies used to appreciate the effect of households on kid's overall healthiness and improvement. It sought to discover person disciplinary contributions and the ways that diverse methodologies and disciplinary views might be mixed within the learn of households. towards an built-in technological know-how of analysis on households records the knowledge awarded within the workshop displays and discussions. The record explores the belief of relatives study as being either easy and utilized, supplying possibilities for studying in addition to intervention. It discusses learn as being Most worthy while equipped round specific difficulties, reminiscent of weight problems or harm prevention. towards an built-in technology of analysis on households deals a problem-oriented strategy which could consultant a broad-based examine software that extends throughout funders, associations, and medical disciplines.--Publisher's description.
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Large national longitudinal survey samples often lack enough immigrants to drawn meaningful conclusions. Cross-sectional studies and the census tend to emphasize the prevalence of demographic characteristics rather than behavioral changes. Retrospective data do not enable much modeling because not enough data are available on such factors as economic conditions, employment, or migration. For these and other reasons, research on immigration is not particularly nuanced or cumulative. Lichter observed, “it is very hard to link 24 TOWARD AN INTEGRATED SCIENCE OF RESEARCH ON FAMILIES one discrete piece of research on a particular population of Vietnamese or Asians or Koreans or other groups with a broader theoretical or conceptual perspective.
Brown responded that working groups are dealing with the issues and that progress is under way. For example, the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University is compiling data on cohabitation. This will be particularly helpful in refining the terminology used to discuss family forms. Jere Behrman asked about family structure in other parts of the world, and Kelly Raley briefly discussed work in Western Europe. There is considerable geographic and population variation in family structure even in Western Europe, she noted.
These measures tend to have two major components. They measure resources, such as the number of books, magazines, newspapers, computers, and educational videos in a house. Or they monitor parents’ behaviors, such as teaching letters, reading to a child, taking a child on educational outings, or limiting TV watching. One important item is how much parents read to themselves to model literate behaviors and limit TV watching, which is positively associated with reading acquisition. These quantitative measures have several limitations.