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Changing U.S. Family Patterns Pose Policy Challenges

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Beginning in the 1960s—and accelerating over the last two decades—changes in marriage, divorce, cohabitation, and nonmarital childbearing have transformed family life in the United States. The family continues to serve…

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PRB Discuss Online: The Increasing Complexity of Family Life in the United States

Today, Americans are more likely to marry and to divorce than in almost any other Western nation. How has this pattern changed over the last 10 years? What are the…

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