Rural Families and Communities in the United States

Jennifer E. Glick, Ph.D., is Arnold S. and Betty G. Hoffman Professor in Sociology and Director of the Population Research Institute at Penn State. Susan M. McHale, Ph.D., is Director of the Social Science Research Institute and Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Professor of Demography at Penn State.Valarie King, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Human Development and Family Studies and Associate Head of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Penn State.

• Part I. Family Life and Work in Rural Communities.- Chapter 1. Rural Poverty: Research and Policy for U.S. Families.- Chapter 2. Changes in Work and Family Across the Rural United States.- Chapter 3. Employment and Wages in the Places Left Behind.- Part II. Economic and Health Challenges Facing Families in the Rural United States.- Chapter 4. Rural Job Loss to Offshoring and Automation.- Chapter 5. The Opioid Crisis in the Rural United States.- Chapter 6. Demographic Components of Aging in the Nonmetropolitan United States, 1980-2017.- Part III. Family Roles, Well-Being, and Development Pathways in Rural Areas.- Chapter 7. Rural African Americans’ Family Relationships and Well-Being.- Chapter 8. Early Development and Family Life in Rural United States.- Chapter 9. Latino Prosocial Development in the Rural United States.- Chapter 10. Rural Families in the United States: Theory, Research and Policy.