Thematic Areas
Children, Youth and Families
Over the past five years, the PRC has benefited from the strong commitment of the University of Texas to build in the area of Children and Families and has developed a nationally prominent research program in the area. Making an immediate impact, Aletha Huston joined the faculty in 1996 and has contributed extensive senior leadership, grant activity, and national recognition. More recently, the Departments of Human Ecology, Sociology, and Economics added junior faculty members to strengthen the area. The PRC has played a key setting for these researchers, housed in different colleges, to learn from and collaborate with one another. Consequently, we have seen an explosion of funded and published research on children and families. Much of this work centers on four sub-themes: 1) the causes and consequences of family change; 2) non-marital fertility; 3) the consequences of poverty and welfare reform for the lives of children; and 4) the effects of children's use of media on their development and well being.
Area Projects
Parental Repartnering after Divorce
Principal Investigator: Edward R. Anderson
The Parallel Strengths and Weaknesses of the Civil Society and the State: The Example of Katrina Survivors
Principal Investigator: Ronald J. Angel
Family Structure and Developmental Trajectories across the Early Life Course
Principal Investigator: Shannon Cavanagh
The NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development - Phase IV
Principal Investigator: Robert L. Crosnoe
Texas Healthy Marriage Survey
Principal Investigator: Norval D. Glenn
Changes in Employment, Welfare Receipt, and Income as Predictors of Family and Child Care Contexts and Youth Risk and Resilient Behavior
Principal Investigator: Aletha Huston
Early Care Settings and School Readiness of Low-Income Children: Cross-Cutting Lessons from Two Complementary Studies
Principal Investigator: Aletha C. Huston
Interventions, Economic Security, and Child Development
Principal Investigator: Aletha C. Huston
The New Hope Project: Income and Employment Effects on Children and Families
Principal Investigator: Aletha C. Huston
Evaluation of a Program for Infant/toddler Caregivers (PITC)
Principal Investigator: Aletha C. Huston
Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children
Principal Investigator: Jennifer L. Matjasko
Social Ties and Health Behavior Over the Life Course
Principal Investigator: Debra Umberson