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Marriage/Family
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| Diversity, Poverty Characterize Female-Headed Households |
| Over the past 30 years in the U.S., the percentage of female-headed households with children has increased most rapidly among blacks, but this trend appears to have slowed in recent years. (AmeriStat, March 2003) |
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| Solitaire Set Continues to Grow |
| Between 1970 and 2002, the percentage of U.S. adults who lived alone increased from 8 percent to 14 percent. (AmeriStat, March 2003) |
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| Americans Increasingly Opting Out of Marriage |
| Over the past 25 years, the percentage of people who have never been married increased from 24 percent to 29 percent. (AmeriStat, March 2003) |
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| Marriage Boosts Individual Earnings |
| In the United States, men of all ages earn more money if they are married. Like married men, married women have higher personal earnings than women who have never married, but only at younger ages. (AmeriStat, March 2003) |
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| More U.S. Women Outearning Their Husbands |
| On average, women continue to earn less than their male counterparts, but there is also an increasing number of families in which wives earn more money than their husbands (AmeriStat, March 2003) |
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| While U.S. Households Contract, Homes Expand |
| The U.S. Census Bureau reports that average new single-family homes are almost 1.5 times the size of 1970 homes. This trend suggests that families want more living space than they did 30 years ago. But do American families need more space? (AmeriStat, March 2003) |
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| Traditional Families Account for Only 7 Percent of U.S. Households |
| Only 7 percent of all U.S. households consist of married couples with children in which only the husband works. (AmeriStat, March 2003) |
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| Guam Grew Younger, Poorer During the 1990s |
| The 1990s, although a boom time for most of the United States, were hard on Guam, especially on its children and families. While the U.S. military presence on the island declined and tourism revenues fell off, the child population grew at the highest rate since the 1960s, raising the share of children living in poor families. (AmeriStat, November 2002) |
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| Marriage & Motherhood |
| Results from the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey show that close to 30 percent of women ages 15 to 50 who gave birth in 1999-2000 were unmarried. (AmeriStat, May 2002) |
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| Solitary Living on the Rise in the United States |
| In 2000, there were 27.2 million individuals living alone, an increase of 4.7 million since 1990. Some decry this trend as evidence of the disintegration of the American institutions of marriage and family. But does the increase in single householders really herald a weakening of America's social fabric? (AmeriStat, November 2001) |
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| U.S. Families in Poverty: Racial and Ethnic Differences |
| Poverty is a problem that cuts across racial and ethnic boundaries. Almost half of all U.S. families in poverty are white, a little more than a quarter are black, slightly less than a quarter are Hispanic, and the remainder are Asian or from other groups. (AmeriStat, February 2000) |
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