There's No Such Thing As A 'Normal' American Family

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http://www.businessinsider.com/myth-of-normal-american-family-2014-9



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Changing families
Cohen used data from the U.S. Census and from national surveys on family life to reconstruct the family arrangements of Americans in 1960 and 2012.

In 1960, the American family showed a "peak conformity," Cohen told Live Science. That year, the age at first marriage was the youngest, the marriage rate was at its highest, and the number of extended families living together in multigenerational households was the lowest.

That year, 65 percent of children under age 15 lived in a family with married parents in which the father was the breadwinner — the "Leave It to Beaver" ideal. Another 18 percent had married parents who were both employed. Only one child in 350 lived with a mother who had never been married. The vast majority of the single mothers were divorced, widowed or separated, and about 7 percent of children were growing up in those households.

In 2012, no family type held a majority. The number of children with married parents and only a father working dropped to 22 percent, while children raised by dual-income married parents rose to 34 percent. Eleven percent of kids lived with a never-married mother and 7 percent with a parent cohabiting with a romantic partner. About 3 percent of children lived with a single father.



Read more: http://www.livescience.com/47681-normal-american-family-a-myth.html#ixzz3CRH8nfrG

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1. This is what we are all supposed to be

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2. And/or this too!