Patricia Neff Claster is Associate Professor of Sociology at Edinboro University, USA. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of family and intimate relationships, gender and children and youth studies. Her active research endeavours have been recognized with a nomination for the Edinboro Scholar of the Year Award for the last two years in row. Her publications include (edited with Sampson Lee Blair) Visions in the 21st Century Family and (edited with Sampson Lee Blair and Samuel M. Claster) Technology and Youth: Growing Up in a Digital World.
Sampson Lee Blair is Associate Professor in Family Sociology at The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. He has served as Chair of the Children and Youth research section of the American Sociological Association, as Senior Editor of Sociological Inquiry, Editor of the book series Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, and serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, Journal of Family Issues, Marriage and Family Review, Social Justice Research, Sociological Inquiry, International Journal of Criminology and Sociology, and Sociological Viewpoints.