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Just 18% of US households are 'nuclear families' with a married couple and children, down from 40% since 1970s and the lowest since 1959
https://www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 4 December 2021 | y STEPHEN M. LEPORE

Posted on 12/19/2022 8:24:48 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

The number of homes in America with the traditional 'nuclear family' of a married couple with children is now the lowest it has been since 1959, according to Census data.

The Census Bureau's count showed that 17.8 percent of the United States' 130 million households featured married parents with children under the age of 18.

That's only down from 18.6 percent from last year but down much more significantly from over 40 percent in 1970.

There are currently just 23.1 million American homes with those 'nuclear families,' which is the fewest since 1959.

The reasons given for the drop include the pandemic delaying marriage and a continued decline in birth rate.

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1 posted on 12/19/2022 8:24:48 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
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I rarely see little children anymore, and when I grew up in this (same house as my teen years) suburban neighborhood had children under 18 in majority of homes. It is very sad.


2 posted on 12/19/2022 8:32:29 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

It’s all part of the Rat Party’s plan.


3 posted on 12/19/2022 8:34:51 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: Gay State Conservative

LBJs Great Society at work.


4 posted on 12/19/2022 8:42:29 PM PST by BipolarBob (The party never stops until someone calls the cops.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Our society is not reproducing itself. So we are now importing immigrants, including many Muslims. This is what the women’s rights movement has done to America, AND no one is really happy.


5 posted on 12/19/2022 8:49:49 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: RomanSoldier19

And therein lies the problems of our cultures. You gut the nuclear family, you gut the culture.


6 posted on 12/19/2022 8:50:59 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: RomanSoldier19

And the socialists rejoice


7 posted on 12/19/2022 8:51:28 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Dr. Franklin
Our society is not reproducing itself.

Oh BS. We don't need to import humans. GTFAFM.

8 posted on 12/19/2022 8:51:47 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Just like they planned.


9 posted on 12/19/2022 8:52:52 PM PST by bray
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To: RomanSoldier19

No-fault divorce is a scam.


10 posted on 12/19/2022 8:54:04 PM PST by DarrellZero
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To: RomanSoldier19

I have 14 baby mommas based on my latest count. It could be higher. I’ve always been very charitable. I started giving young unwed mothers their start as a young man, but since becoming older fewer are accepting of my donations.


11 posted on 12/19/2022 8:55:31 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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“LBJs Great Society at work.”

I blame FDR. If you have Social Security to take care of you in old age it removes a primary reason people needed to have kids.


12 posted on 12/19/2022 9:00:21 PM PST by Renfrew
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To: RomanSoldier19

The affects of Liberalism upon society.


13 posted on 12/19/2022 9:01:26 PM PST by inchworm (al )
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To: DarrellZero
Divorce is easily the most destructive, selfish, anti-family action any adult can take aside from murder et al. The devastation visited upon the children of divorce is criminal.

Further, self-serving bromides like "the kids will be better off not hearing mommy and daddy fight" is the sibling of "the aborted baby would have had a terrible life."

14 posted on 12/19/2022 9:07:19 PM PST by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Taxpayers are forced to subsidize single mothers, leading to more single mothers.


15 posted on 12/19/2022 9:12:40 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: RomanSoldier19

A mark of dnc success, of which they are smugly proud. But they will reapply their efforts to totally eliminate man and woman households for children.Father and mother households were ordained y God. The dnc and globalist oligarchy hate God.


16 posted on 12/19/2022 9:21:25 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: RomanSoldier19
not to worry

a Tsunami of pregnancy replacements are flooding across the borders at this very moment

we are speeding along with no brakes tailgating right behind Europe on the highway to hell

17 posted on 12/19/2022 9:27:08 PM PST by KTM rider (, or how Ambassador Stevens was killed because he was about to testify before the UN council )
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To: RomanSoldier19

Once we allowed God to be driven out of the public square, this result was CERTAIN.

(also it’s interesting that Russia took the exact opposite approach as the west, bringing God back into the country, and that has turned their country around)


18 posted on 12/19/2022 9:30:31 PM PST by BobL
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To: DoodleBob
Further, self-serving bromides like "the kids will be better off not hearing mommy and daddy fight" is the sibling of "the aborted baby would have had a terrible life."

I Love Her ('Cause she lets me watch her Mom & Pop fight)

Old Mad Magazine

19 posted on 12/19/2022 9:34:32 PM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))
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To: RomanSoldier19
There are currently just 23.1 million American homes with those 'nuclear families,' which is the fewest since 1959.

In 1959, I didn't know anyone who was not a member of a nuclear family.

20 posted on 12/19/2022 10:16:36 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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