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- Title
U.S. Families Post-Brady Bunch.
- Authors
Hollander, Dore
- Abstract
This article focuses on household and family composition in the United States. Along with changes in the age structure and social values of the U.S. population since 1970 have come dramatic shifts in household and family composition. Overall, families accounted for 70 percent of households in 1995, compared with 81 percent in 1970; married couples with never-married children younger than 18 represented 26 percent of households in 1995, down from 40 percent in 1970. Of the 69.3 million families in 1995, 78 percent were headed by married couples, 18 percent by unmarried women and 5 percent by unmarried men. Between 1970 and 1995, the number of families headed by single women and men grew by 122 percent and 163 percent, respectively, while the number headed by married couples rose by only 20 percent. The proportion of families headed by a married couple younger than 35 has declined from 28 percent to 22 percent and the proportion of these families with children younger than 18 has fallen from 77 percent to 70 percent.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FAMILIES; HOUSEHOLDS; SOCIAL values; MARRIED people; AGE
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1997, Vol 29, Issue 2, p50
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article