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The End of Nuclear Families

By jolee1996
  • Period: to

    Divorce rate for Groups rose

    African-Americans 4.4%, Hispancis 3.9%, Whites 3.1 % rose in divorce from their previous statistics

  • Percentage of Families headed by married couples

    84.5% Asian-Americans, 80.6% Hispanic families, 68.3% of African-American families
  • Period: to

    Proportion of married-couple families among all households declined

  • 84.5% of Asian-American family households were headed by married couples

  • Recession, increased divorce rates

  • Divorce Rates Level off

  • Racial Divorce Rates

    African-American 11.3%, non-Hispanic whites 10.4%, Asian-Americans 4.1%, and Hispanics 7.1% were divorced

  • 2/5 or 40% of all working mothers relied on informal childcare

    The most common type of informal childcare was grandparents

  • 80.7% of non-Hispanic white familes were married-cople families, drop from 1970

  • The proportion of Asian-American family households headed by married couples, decreased to 18.2%

  • African-American families were headed by married-couple families dropped to 44.7%

  • 23.3 Million adults ages 15 years and older were divorce