Posted on 08/17/2005 2:56:58 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative
Single-adult households have displaced two-parent families with children as the most common kind of U.S. household, the Census Bureau reported yesterday.
The change demonstrates "the growing complexity" of American households, researchers said in a new report, "Examining American Household Composition: 1990 and 2000."
"It's breathtaking how many people still think that the 'mom, pop and two kids' is the majority of households," said Peter Francese, the founder of American Demographics magazine.
Nuclear-family households -- two married parents and a child -- were the most common as recently as 1990, when there were 25 million such households.
But by 2000, nuclear-family households fell to second place, both because there were almost a half-million fewer of these type of homes and because the number of single-adult households surged past 27 million.
Married households without children remained the third most common, with 20 million in 1990 and 22 million in 2000.
Mr. Francese, who has studied U.S. demographic trends for 35 years, said single-adult households are continuing to grow and might even hit 34 million by the 2010 census.
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Or it shows that our family law courts have made it tenable for mothers to divorce the fathers of their children, retain physical custody of said children, and be "independent" on the court-ordered child support paid by the father, who ends up renting a room in a house with roommates, or living in a one-room apartment.
I am quite proud of my accomplishments in helping to achieve not only my personal goals, but in contributing to bettering the performance of my clients. I would say that I have achieved alot in my 29 years. No, I have never gone off to war, nor have I saved a bunch of schoolchildren from a burning building. Nevertheless, I DO NOT need a wife and rug rats to PROVE anything.
Listen, bunny: read the post. It is pretty clear that "future" referred to offspring. That was a local statement.
And, if you think I was in error, why do you commit the same error, as if you knew who I am. In fact, unlike the poster I was replying to, I did NOT tell you anything about myself. While I was acting on limited information provided about him, you are acting on none at all about me. Silly bunny.
You asked a simple question, to paraphrase, "What do you have to be proud of?" The question certainly implies that he should be anything but proud. My question, "What is there to be ashamed of?" is a perfectly rational response that you didn't answer, instead choosing to question its relevance.
The premise of your original question, borne out in your statement concerning his not helping to secure the future of our country by procreating, is the reason, I assume, that you didn't answer the question. Certainly you can see that yours is a typical progressive idea, that every individual should live for society before oneself.
Hard to understand how a person would put up with such injustice. I'd quit working or leave the country before I'd let the government do that to me.
The idiocy on this thread multiplies very quickly.
Firstly, he did not sat anything about homeownership. Secondly, homeownership, which you apparently worship, is the "American Dream" manufactured by the Realtors Association in 1950s.
Thirdly, and most importantly, none of this is relevant to my post.
" MAYBE I will get married, maybe not."
I personally think you will live longer if you don't get married. Men and women are different species.
Many thanks for your post.
Same here!
Married men live longer?. . .well. . .I dunno. . .it just seems to last forever.
;-)
No, but some of us ARE fortunate to be graced with both.
No question about it, and that has never been questioned. But it was rather telling that you do not realize that, throughout history and across cultures, one typically did all that AND had offspring. A successful deviation from easy to difficult is a justifiable source of pride, wouldn't you say? But the converse is not true. If you, as many others in modern Western society, reduce your accomplishments -- from personal/professional AND having offspring to personal/professional only --- whence the feeling of pride? As I said earlier, one can fall down or remain in a natural state without effort.
Nevertheless, I DO NOT need a wife and rug rats to PROVE anything.
And that is the most telling part --- that you confuse the ability to love, share and give life with proving something.
Very sad.
No I did not.
How 'bout an example of same?
Exact quotes then:
"What are you proud of?"
My apologies.
Yeah. Heh-heh. Heh-heh. Cool.
Yeah. Just look at that slacker Issac Newton.
"the one true love...".....BAAAWWAAAAHHHHHHHHH
Exact quotes then: "What are you proud of?"
It is exact but incomplete. One last clarification: this is in reference pride proclaimed by Clemenza.
My apologies. No offense taken. But please do read before you write.
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