Center for Family and Demographic Research
The Center for Family and Demographic Research is a proud affiliate of BGSU's campus and community.
Center for Family & Demographic Research
The Center for Family and Demographic Research (CFDR) is an NIH-funded population research center dedicated to research, training, and service in demography. The CFDR integrates demographic methods, data, and perspectives with other social scientific approaches to understand the well-being of children and families. A special focus of research by CFDR affiliates addresses the public health and social problems facing at-risk children, adolescents, and families.
The Center for Family and Demographic Research at Bowling Green State University has core funding from The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (P2CHD050959).
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Spring Symposium
"Declining Fertility in the U.S.: Interpretations, Predictions, and Implications"
Thursday, April 2, 2020 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
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CFDR Grants
- Kelly Balistreri
2020 Ohio Medicaid Assessment Survey
Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center - Susan Brown and I-Fen Lin
Health and Well-being Effects on Later-life Divorce and Subsequent Repartnering
National Institute on Aging - Eric Dubow
Exposure to Violence and Subsequent Weapons Use: Mediating and Moderating Processes
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development - Peggy Giordano
Campus Sexual Misconduct: Using Perpetrator Risk Mechanisms Underlying Desistance from Crime: Individual and Social Pathways
National Institute of Justice
New Publications
- Giordano, Copp, Manning, Longmore. “When Worlds Collide: Involvement with Friends and Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adulthood.” Social Forces.
- Kao, Joyner, Balistreri. The Company We Keep: Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood. Russell Sage Foundation.
- Lin, Wu. “Early-Life Parent-Child Relationships and Adult Children's Support of Unpartnered Parents in Later Life.” The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.
- Mowen, Stansfield, Boman. "Family Matters: Moving Beyond 'If' Family Support Matters to 'Why' Family Support Matters during Reentry from Prison." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
- Clemens, Longmore, Giordano, Manning. “Criminal Justice Involvement and Young Adult Health: The Role of Adolescent Health Risks and Stress.” Ohio Journal of Public Health.