Situational issues related to families and influences upon families in North Dakota and the United States are briefly outlined in these fact sheets. Contents specifically concern (1) outbound migration from North Dakota and transition of rural families from farming; (2) suicide in North Dakota and the nation; (3) child care issues, such as child abuse and neglect, cost of day care in days lost from work, a course about self-care for children, family day care, group child care, center care providers in the state, aspects of high quality day care, and a rationale for early childhood education; (4) preprimary school enrollment; (5) decline in the number of latchkey children nationwide; (6) current trends in marriage and divorce among American women; and (7) the rising incidence of never married adults in the U.S. Enclosures include copies of "The Provider," a newsletter for professional child caregivers; North Dakota child abuse and neglect statistics from July 1975 through June 1986; and the Governor's proclamation of 1987 as the Year of the Child, and the first Sunday in June as Children's Day, in North Dakota. (RH)