The Future of Healthy Families
Speaker:
Ross Parke
16 Sep 2015
4:00 PM
2019 Morrill Hall
Ross Parke, professor emeritus in psychology at the University of California, Riverside, is the 2015-16 Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair in the College of Human Sciences at Iowa State. His research focuses on the development of social behavior in young children, in particular the role of fathers and the contributions fathers make to the family unit. Parke is one of the preeminent scholars in the area of mother-father differences in parenting and the role of economic hardship on families. His many books include Fatherhood; Throwaway Dads: The Myths and Barriers That Keep Men from Being the Fathers They Want to Be; and Future Families: Diverse Forms, Rich Possibilities. 2015 Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series
The 2015 Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series brings together insight from across disciplinary bounds to address how family is defined, the current knowledge on healthy families, and the future of the field.
[b]A full schedule of events in the series is available online: [url=http://www.hs.iastate.edu/academics/hilton-chair/]Future of Healthy Families Series[/url][/b]