Symposia

COVID-19 AND FAMILIES

Thursday, April 15, 2021
10:30 am -5:00 pm ET
Online via Zoom

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered the lives of individuals and families. As institutions like schools, workplaces, and prisons have had to change how – and where – they function, the repercussions of these changes have been wide-ranging but unequally distributed across characteristics such as gender, class, and race-ethnicity. This year’s Center for Family and Demographic Research symposium features four well-respected scholars highlighting the impacts of the pandemic on behaviors and well-being within families and across interpersonal relationships.
This symposium is free but pre-registration is required.  Please contact the CFDR Office to register.

Agenda

Guest Speakers:

“By Default: The Origins of Gendered Inequality in Pandemic Parenting Arrangements”
Jessica McCrory Calarco, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Indiana University

“School Reopening Plans and Parents' Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Liana Christin Landivar, PhD
Sociologist, Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor and
Faculty Affiliate, Maryland Population Research Center

"Workplace Supports, Domestic Labor, and Labor Force Participation During the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Daniel L. Carlson, PhD
Associate Professor of Family, Health, and Public Policy
Department of Family and Consumer Studies
University of Utah

“Not Being Able to See Him or Hear His Voice Regularly Makes Him Feel Even Farther Away:” Barriers to Supporting Relationships among Families Impacted by Incarceration During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Breanna Boppre, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Criminal Justice
Wichita State University

• Declining Fertility in the U.S.: Interpretations, Predictions, and Implications
  
• Intergenerational Transmission of Health
  
• Caregiving and Family Well-Being
  
• Boomers to Millennials: Generational Divides Across the Life Course
  
• Economic Inequality and Family Change
  
• Research Advances in Intimate Partner Violence - March 25, 2015
• Same-Sex Couples: Frontiers in Measurement and Analysis - March 26, 2014
  
• Relational Spirituality: Advancing 21st Century Science on Faith in Diverse Families - March 12, 2013
• Parental Well-Being in Contemporary Families - March 26, 2012
• Baby Boomers and Family Changes in the 21st Century - March 15, 2011
• Social Ties, Crime, and Violence - March 23, 2010
• Sexual and Romantic Relationships in Emerging Adulthood - March 25, 2009
• Repartnering Symposium - Thursday, March 13, 2008
• The Social Contexts of Adolescence - April 20, 2006
• Surviving the Hurricane Katrina Disaster: Poverty, Race and Class in New Orleans. - December 2, 2005
• Cohabitation: Advancing Theory and Research - February 10, 2005
• Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families - March 1, 2002