Ideas for Papers and Projects

Paper Topic Ideas and Previous Paper Titles:

Papers and Projects Published in Stance For the Family- Summer 2010:

• Do Protective Orders Really Protect?
• Building the Family of Man
• Legal Contexts of New Testament Teachings on Marriage
• Homosexuality and the LDS Church
• Roots and Family
• Video Games and Children
• How Can We Solve the Problem of Child Abuse in Utah?
• Confronting Infertility
• Financial Strain on Marriage
• Turn Off the Television
• Pornography’s Effect on Marriage

Stance for the Family- Winter 2010

• Abandoning Marriage
• To My Friend Struggling with Pornography Addiction
• Beautiful Child (poem)
• Adolescent Attachment and its Potential Compensating Mechanism
• Come Listen to the Story (song)
• Kiss the Cook: Effects of Frequency and Quality of Family Meals on Adolescent Health
• Marriage is Ordained of God
• Leading Causes of Sibling Rivalry and Familiar Resilience
• Family Centered (Photography)
• Media, Sedentary Behavior and Children’s Health
• Family Traditions
• Timing Divorce to Benefit Children
• Strengthening Marriage
• Exploring Family Values in a Christmas Carol

Strengthening the Family: Symposium Proceedings 2011

• Sexual Behaviors and Physicality in Emerging Adulthood
• The Effects of Pornography on Romantic Social Bonding
• A Generation Failing to Commit
• Status Update: Media and the Family Are Now in a Relationship
• Christian Modesty: The Redefining of a Timeless Virtue
• Failing to Try or Trying Not to Fail?
• A Conjugal Theory of Sexual Morality

Stance for the Family: Winter 2012 (see online version here)

General Project Ideas

• Advertisement promoting an aspect of family life
• Website providing resources for families
• Program to teach lower income families basic financial principles
• Short video on the family
• Computer program enhancing genealogy research
• Strategic plan to improve  local schools and education
• Portrait depicting family life
• Poster presenting research
• One act screen play
• Musical composition
• Sex education program
• Figurine art project with analysis
• Film on Family – 30 second commercial
• Research Project – The Impact of Religiosity on the Drug Use of High School Athlete
• Song
• Exposure to negative content in books and adolescent aggression and profanity use poster
  Relationship of democracy and inequality on the family
• Poster – fatherhood
• Poster – The Family That Has Shaped My Life
• Poster – Improving Physical Health through Addressing Childhood Obesity in the Family
• Instructional Website
• Computer program – Integrating Genealogical and Media Domains
• Research Poster – Does agency alleviate or aggravate aggression?
• Bedtime – book
• Family Film Commercial
• Internet Safety Guidelines – website
• Book – Family Traditions
• The Little Things – picture book describing important family habits
• Website focused on strengthening family
• Roots – artistic depiction of tree root system and relationship to family
• Teenaged to Old Aged; Creative Writing

Paper and Project Ideas by Category

Accounting/Management:

• Project: improving communities through loans and scholarships for those of lower economic status
• Project: teaching tax and family finances to those in the community
• Micro-lending and its influence on family life
• Effects that marketing and advertising have on household consumption
• How to implement principles of organizational behavior into a family environment

American Studies:

• American culture and family life
• The influence of American political trends on the family

Anthropology:

• Family culture in other areas of the world
• Kinship networks of Africa, Latin America, etc.
• Comparison of different world religious views on the family
• Comparing parenting methods across cultures

Communications:

• The family ad: advertisements promoting the family
• You tube: short commercial on the family
• The effect media has had on the family and society
• The effect pornography has on the family

Computer Science/ Information Systems:

• Pornography: ways to control negative influences available on the internet
• Project: using the internet to make resources available to families (i.e. genealogy site)
• Utilizing computers in family budgeting
• Keeping personal information secure online
• Facebook: the result of modern programs on inter-personal communications
• How computer models mimic human networks & can help the family

Economics:

• Cost/benefit analysis of same-sex marriage on society
• The decline of the family and the cost that society pays: an econometric analysis
• The role of consumerism on personal relationships
• Income as related to marital satisfaction

Education:

• Parent v. Teacher: the responsibility of teachers and parents in education
• Education as we know it: how to improve education in America
• Project or paper: how to use schools to strengthen the family

English:

• The portrayal of the family in classical literature compared to modern media
• The effect literature has on the family and society
• Reading with your children: what influence does it have?

Engineering

• Project: utilizing technological developments to benefit the family
• Paper: the influence of corporate culture on communities and families
• How to use engineering professional connections to promote the family and personal values
• What is the impact of technology and engineering advancements on family life? (i.e. what have been the impacts of texting on family interactions? How have advances in automotive technology helped strengthen or weaken family bonds?)
• From logic to relationships: important things for engineers to know in order prepare for family life

Geography:

• Decreasing population in Europe and its affect on the family
• A study of China and its population policies
• A response to feminist geography

History:

• The effect of the women’s rights movement on society
• History of gender roles and the family
• A comparison of past eras with current political movements
• Communism and the effects on family life
• Historical portrait of the family during different periods

Humanities:

• How the portrayal of the family in art/literature has affected the family & the effect it currently has today
• The role of women/men in courtship
• Critical review of plays/books that highlight married love

International Studies:

• The American family: how it compares to other cultures
• Analysis of other cultures and family life
• Project: combating family problems resulting from lower socio-economic status

Languages:

• Comparison of families in other countries with those in the United States
• The influence of the French revolution on society and family
• The role of extended family in Latin relationships: a comparison to current trends
• World War II and the effects on family life
• Historical portrait of what the family was like during different periods of history

Life Sciences:

• The effect of pornography on the brain and family
• How physical stimulation affects neurological development
• Project: improving medical conditions for children of lower economic status
• Analysis of socio-economic status on health and human performance
• Super-Size It! the effects of obesity on health and family
• Homosexuality: is it genetic?
• AIDS epidemic and its effect on family structure

Linguistics:

• How parents can affect a child’s linguistic development
• Comparative study on how different languages treat family vocabulary
• How mothers and fathers communication with children affects relationships

Marriage, Family and Human Development:

• Societal benefits of marriage and family
• Effects of marital relationships on child development
• The effects of cohabitation on society and families

MDT/Dance/Theater:

• Life in the theater and families in the real world: an analysis of how plays have depicted and relate to the real life family
• Portrayal of families in the arts prior to 1900’s compared to now
• Project: one act play
• How has the portrayal of families affects family life
• Theater for young audiences

Music

• Practice makes perfect: how teaching children music affects the child and home
• The effect of music on child development
• Performance: A life style – common effects the performance life style on the family; how to have a successful family life with a demanding career
• Project: strengthening the families and communities through using/teaching music
• Pop culture: the effect of rock and roll on society and families

Neuroscience:

• The effect of pornography on the brain and the family
• How physical stimulation affects the brain and development
• The influence of differing environments on a child’s neurological development

Nursing:

• Health care: how modern changes in health care may affect the family
• The AIDS epidemic and its effect on family structures
• Project: improving health care for children
• Abortion and proposed health care programs: its effect on women

Philosophy:

• Application of ethics to same-sex marriage and other family issues
• Analysis of Amercian cultural thought on family
• Study of philosophical thought as it relates to the purpose of the family

Physical & Mathematical Sciences:

• Reading, writing and arithmetic: getting back to the basics in families and education
• Project: utilizing science and astronomy in family activities & education (stargazing, etc.)
• The effect of geology on migration patterns and people (i.e. tracking geneology)
• Homosexuality: is it genetic?

Political Science:

• The effect of policies on behavior (i.e. no-fault divorce, same-gender marriage, etc.)
• How different branches of government influence family and marriage
• Other countries’ methods of dealing with family issues and the resulting effects
• UN treaties and policies and the effect on the family
• A study of countries that have legalized same-sex marriage
• A comparative study of family deterioration/improvements in different countries

Psychology:

• The influence of “the super model” on adolescent development
• The development of individualism and the resulting impact on relationships
• The effect of divorce on adolescent development
• The psychological effects of abortion on women

Recreation Management:

• Recreation, why it matters: the impact of being a workaholic on the family
• Project: 101 places to visit in Utah as a family
• The effect of different types of recreation on the family, from TV to the outdoors

Sociology:

• Societal trends in child rearing
• The effect of fatherless homes on children
• Obesity and the family (eating patterns established in home)
• Depopulation
• Societal retreat from marriage
• Cohabitation vs. marriage in America
• American religion and marriage
• Gender roles and marriage in America
• The effect of divorce in America

Statistics:

• Setting the record straight: analysis of the accuracy of statistics used in family research
• Statistics and adoption: the ideal environment for child development

Visual Arts:

• The effect of visual stimuli on the family
• Project/Paper: the connection between movements in art on the family
• Project: using animation to strengthen homes
• Disney: how movies and TV have changed the home

Other previously submitted paper titles:

• Facebook: the effect of modern media on inter-personal communications
• Micro-lending and its influence on family life
• Parent v. Teacher:  the responsibility of teachers and parents in education
• The economic implications of marriage
• The effect of divorce on adolescent development
• The portrayal of the family in classical literature compared to modern media
• The influence of corporate culture on communities and families
• Dating trends in American culture
• A study of China and its population policies
• History of gender roles and the family
• World War II and the effects on family life
• The effect of pornography on the brain and family
• Super-Size It! the effects of obesity on health and family
• Homosexuality: is it genetic?
• Should parents have the right to be informed of a child’s choice to abort?
• How parents can affect a child’s linguistic development
• Life in the theater: an analysis of how plays have depicted family life
• Practice makes perfect: how teaching children music affects the child and home
• Pop culture: the effect of rock and roll on society and families
• The influence of differing environments on a child’s neurological development
• How modern changes in health care may affect the family
• The effect of abortion and proposed health care programs on women
• An analysis of different ethical theories as they relate to same-sex marriage
• The effect of geology on migration patterns and people
• The effect of public policies on behavior
• UN treaties and policies and the effect on the family
• The influence of “the super model” on adolescent development
• Recreation, why it matters: the impact of being a workaholic on the family
• Gender roles and marriage in America
• Setting the record straight: analysis of the accuracy of statistics used in family research
• Analysis of adoption laws in different states
• The Role of Family in As You Like It and King Lear
• A Letter to a Friend Struggling with Pornography Addiction
• Lessons from a Romanian Orphanage on the Importance of Families
• Obama: A New Hope for What (The Impact of the New Health Care Bill on the Family)
• Same-Sex Marriage: A Feminist’s Concern
• UN Children’s Treaty Paper
• Using Rituals and Traditions to Nourish the Family
• Same-Sex Marriage is not Miscegenation: Why Loving does not Figure in Marriage Debate
• The Implications of United States Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Familial Relations and Cultural Philosophy in Grave Stele of the Classical Period
• Multidimensional Roles of Women and Children Within Maya Society
• Timing Divorce to Benefit Children: Conflict versus Living Arrangements and Remarriage
• Marital Satisfaction, Psychological Control, and Type 1 Diabetes
• Parenting Young Children and Stress
• Positive Parenting Strategies Can Foster Socially Competent Children
• My Glory, and My Grief: Forming Marital Relationships
• Religiosity’s Influence in Deterring Delinquency
• The Long-term Effects of Cohabitation
• The Effect of Family Rules
• Raising a Family in a New Country’s Culture
• The Benefits and Detriments of Bed Sharing
• State Specters in the Delivery Room: Treating Natural Birth as Neglect (A Legal Analysis)
• The Negative Effects of Pornography on Family Relationships
• The Historical Context of New Testament Teachings on Sexual Fidelity and Conduct
• A Silent Struggle: Men with Same-Sex Attraction
• Parenting Dimensions and Sharing
• Changes in Parenting Practices with a Premature Infant
• Preparing for Your Family
• Marriage Essentials
• Pornography’s Effect on Marriage and How We Can Help
• Between Two Worlds: relationships of hearing children with their Deaf parents
• Fathers Estranged by Maternal Love
• What Makes Marriage Last?
• Marital Perceptions
• Anne Bradstreet’s Family: Together Forever?
• A survey of financial strain and resource management on marital satisfaction
• Love Lost: A Nationwide Survey of Statutes Affecting Reconciliation Efforts
• Media Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
• Fathers
• Shaping a Nation: Journalism and the Family
• Considering Marital Transitions
• Pornography in Committed Relationships
• Families: Forming the Adolescent
• Family Dynamics and Media Use: Literature Review
• Parents’ and Adult Children’s Behavior Patterns in Couple Relationships
• Political Marriage: How and Why the State has a Say
• Personal Philosophy of Leisure
• Deriving Movie Magic
• Fertility and Luck: The Impact of Beliefs on Choice of Family Size
• She who is Called Mother
• Effects of Video Games on Children
• Family Life
• Family of Origin
• Quantity Time vs. Quality Time: Parenting in Today’s World
• Infertility and Distress: A Correlation View
• Saved at Such Infinite Cost: Teen Pregnancy and Adoption
• Demand-Withdraw Communication
• Sex Trafficking of Minors in Utah
• Mom Makes the Man
• Parenting the Next Generation
• Upholding the Ideal Family for Children: A Mother and a Father
• The benefits that involvement in sports have in a child’s development
• Discipline Influencing Social Competence in Children
• Dishonesty: Culprit of Our Failing Society
• Marital Relationship Quality, Parenting, and Differentiated Self-Regulation
• Parental Socialization of Adolescent Pro-social Behavior
• Parenting in Adolescence: A Decade in Review
• The Benevolent Mother
• Measuring Father Involvement with Adolescents in Botswana
• The Value of Family Meals
• Adults with a Difficult Past Becoming Transitional Characters
• Cohabitation: A Societal Plague
• Child Maltreatment Policy in Utah
• From Dating to Marriage: An Appropriate Relationship
• Couple Text Messaging, Communication, and Relationship Satisfaction
• Men Can’t Do Without Women: Martin Luther’s Effect on Women and Marriage
• A Freedom to Marry or a Right to Marriage? (No, that’s not redundant)
• The Changing Male Identity in Early Modern Europe: Fathers and the Question of Worth
• Parent’s Working Hours and Child Depression Rates
• Gender Roles: Interpretations from Society and religions
• The Value of the Child
• How Mothers Quality Time with Children Affects Childs Cognitive Development
• Temperament of Children in Relation to Parent-Child Attachment
• Oneness – New Musings on a “Familiar” Theme
• When Public Schools Pay: Private School Tuition Reimbursement under IDEA
• Having a Child with Disabilities: The Effects on Family Member Well-being
• Premarital Education: Effects and Areas of Improvement
• The Benefits of Love and Teaching in the Family
• Connecting to the Family of Man: A Look at Romanian Orphanages
• The Impact of No-Fault Divorce
• Breaking the Cycle
• Marital Observation Research
• Marital Perspectives: Self and Partner Report in Research
• Abortion: Do Laws Matter?
• The Making of Strong Families: Family Analysis Paper
• Stable Families and Same-Sex Unions
• Divorce and Prophecy
• Rights to the “L” Word: Love vs. Lust
• The Importance of the Nurturing Mother
• Adolescent Attachment and its Potential Compensating Mechanisms
• Marriage–How Do We Fix This?
• Marriage & Divorce Comparative Paper (Jordan & American Divorce Law)
• Family Formation Outside of Marriage: A Representative Review of Literature for 2000-09
• Re-marital Pre-marital Education
• Why Marriage? Tools to Defend Marriage
• Adoption and Child Development
• Marital Satisfaction
• Changes to Marriage: Emerging Adults & the Parent-Child Relationship
• A New Natural Law Approach to the Family
• Logical Fallacies Used by Courts to Justify Same-Sex Marriage Validate a Slippery Slope
• Positive Psychology
• Do Protective Orders Really Protect?
• Ties that Bind
• A Christmas Carol: An Analysis of the Rule of Family
• Examining the Skill of Constructive Interaction
• Who Wears the Pants in the Family? A Focus on the Need for Interdependence of Partners
• China One Child Policy
• Correlation of Emotional and Physical Infidelity and Its Effects on Marital Relationship
• Creating an environment of virtue within the home or family
• The Significance of Family Meals in Adolescent Health
• Family of Origins
• Ancient Law and the Role of Mothers
• Fathers affecting the lives of children
• Media Based Deficient Self Regulation and Marital Commitment
• Discipline: Impacts on Children
• Temporal Welfare and the Family: Spiritual Connections with Physical Routines
• Parental Displacement in America
• Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Media Exposure on Children
• Moore’s law and the Family
• Tolerance
• Intimacy in marriage
• Facebook and Families