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Families in Troubled Times: Adapting to Change in Rural America (Social Institutions and Social Change Series) (1st Edition) by Rand D. Conger, Glen Holl Elder, Glen Elder Jr. Paperback, 303 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-202-30488-4 / 0202304884 ISBN-13: 978-0-202-30488-5 / 9780202304885 The turbulent decade of the 1980s began with financial calamity in several sectors of the United States economy, from automaking to agriculture. The rural Midwest experienced its worst economic decline since the Depression years. Thousands of farmers lost their operations, and the small rural commun |