@article{24681e247cc0418884a676c2f49b0fab,
title = "Coming of Age in Appalachia, Emerging or Expedited Adulthood?",
abstract = "We examine the transition to adulthood in a poor, white, rural community in Appalachia. Young adults come of age in a context of persistent poverty, economic decline, an ongoing opioid and addiction crisis, and strong community norms about family and work bolstered by religious institutions. For low-income young adults in this community, this stage in the life course is both expedited and emerging. Marriage and childbearing are expedited, frequently occurring in late teens or early twenties. However, other adult markers-such as stable employment, pursuing education, and leaving the parental home-are often slow to emerge and are usually only tentatively achieved. This pattern is in contrast to middle-class young adults in this community.",
keywords = "addiction, life course, poverty, rural, young adulthood",
author = "Miller, {Emily E.N.} and Kathryn Edin",
note = "Funding Information: {\textcopyright} 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Miller, Emily E. N., and Kathryn Edin. 2022. “Coming of Age in Appalachia, Emerging or Expedited Adulthood?” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(4): 50–67. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.4.02. Data collection would not have been possible without our partners in the field: Olivia Mann and Lanora Johnson as well as co-PIs Luke Shaefer and Timothy Nelson. The authors would like to thank the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for funding this research. Research reported in this publication was in part supported by The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P2CHD047879 and Award Number T32HD007163. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. We are also grateful to the people of Clay County who opened their lives, invited us into their homes, and shared their stories. Direct correspondence to: Emily Miller, at eenm@princeton.edu, 227 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, United States; Kathryn Edin, at kedin@princeton.edu, 151 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved.",
year = "2022",
month = may,
day = "1",
doi = "10.7758/RSF.2022.8.4.02",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "8",
pages = "50--67",
journal = "RSF",
issn = "2377-8253",
publisher = "Russell Sage Foundation",
number = "4",
}