Summary
"Demographically, socially and culturally, the nation is shifting from a society of childrearing families to a society of child-free adults. The percentage of households with children has declined from half of all households in 1960 to less than one-third today, the lowest percentage in the nation's history," according to a study by the National Marriage Project (NMP) at Rutgers University.
This change in America has gone virtually unnoticed and undocumented. Thirty-six years ago, 62 percent of an adult's life was spent with a spouse and children, the highest in history. By 1985, that dropped to 43 percent, the lowest in history.See the full content of this document
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Life Without Children
Why? There are four key reasons cited by NMP's report "Life Without Children," by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead and David Popenoe: (www.marriage.rutgers.edu).
(1) Married couples wait longer to have...See the full content of this document
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