This document, prepared in English for a conference in Japan on family education in the era of decreasing births, presents the conference agenda, profiles of contributors, and summaries or outlines of the papers to be delivered. The aim of the conference was to exchange research results from different countries and from interdisciplinary perspectives regarding family factors that have been diversified by various causes and relationships among the choices of women's lifestyles, decreasing births, and social policies. The following papers were to be delivered: (1) "Gender and Family Change" (Yoriko Meguro); (2) "Women's Work in America: The Struggle To Balance Work and Family" (Mary C. Murphree); (3) "Changing Gender Roles in Childbirth and Childcare" (Keiko Funabashi); (4) "Value of a Child and the Meaning of Child Care" (Keiko Kashiwagi); (5) "Family Structure and Parent-Child Relations in the Changing Society" (Hidenori Fujita); (6) "How Family Evolves with Changes in Society-Psychological Approach to Better Family Relationship" (Taelyon Kim); (7) "Social Policy towards Building Gender Equity in Family-The Concept of UN International Year of the Family and the Situation in Japan" (Setsu Ito); (8) "Ways of Thinking about the Family, Children, and Social Supports in Australia" (Donald E. Edgar); (9) "Gender and Family in Sweden" (Rita Liljestrom); (10) "Population Issues and Women" (Hiroko Hara); (11) "International Comparative Research on 'Home Education'" (Katsuko Makino); (12) "Violence in the Family" (Satoru Saito); and (13) "Child-Rearing in a Community" (Sanae Uchida). (SLD)