married couples with children now fewer than 1/4 households
Read the Washington Post article:
Punctuating a fundamental change in American family life, married couples with children now occupy fewer than one in every four households -- a share that has been slashed in half since 1960 and is the lowest ever recorded by the census.As marriage with children becomes an exception rather than the norm, social scientists say it is also becoming the self-selected province of the college-educated and the affluent.
Punctuating a fundamental change in American family life, married couples with children now occupy fewer than one in every four households -- a share that has been slashed in half since 1960 and is the lowest ever recorded by the census.As marriage with children becomes an exception rather than the norm, social scientists say it is also becoming the self-selected province of the college-educated and the affluent.
posted by Sam at 3:43 PM
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If you marry, have have children and live to be 80, you will have a 'married with children' household approximately 1/4th of your life. Other lifestyles (not married, gay, divorced,etc.) dilute this fraction even further. The statistics sited seem normal. Boomers were the exception rather than the rule.
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