Intergenerational Caregiving | About the Editors
Alan Booth is distinguished professor of sociology, human development, and demography at Penn State. He has been a senior scientist in Penn State’s Population Research Institute since 1991. Booth has co-organized the University’s National Symposium on Family Issues since its inception in 1993. His research has focused on marital and parent–child relationship quality, nonresidential fathers and their children, adolescent transition to adulthood, as well as hormones and family relationships. He is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and four books, and editor of 16 volumes.
Ann C. Crouter is the Raymond E. and Erin Stuart Schultz Dean of the College of Health and Human Development and professor of human development at Penn State. Her research, funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, focuses on the interconnections between work circumstances and family processes in a variety of populations.
Suzanne M. Bianchi is professor and chair of sociology at the University of Maryland. She is a past president of the Population Association of America and a former director of the Maryland Population Research Center. Dr. Bianchi’s research focuses on the American family, time use, and gender equality. Her most recent book (coauthored with John P. Robinson and Melissa Milkie), Changing Rhythms of American Family Life, is winner of the 2008 William Goode Book Award of the American Sociological Association. She was awarded the District of Columbia Sociological Society’s 2008 Stuart A. Rice Award for Career Achievement.
Judith A. Seltzer is professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is chair-elect of the family section of the American Sociological Association and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on the Design of the 2010 Census Program of Evaluations and Experiments. Seltzer studies kinship institutions that are in flux and instances in which family membership and coresidence do not coincide. Her research examines marriage, cohabitation, divorce, and nonmarital families in the United States. She has a long-standing interest in custody, child support, and visiting patterns in separated families and in the quality of data used to study families.
