Unmarried America

21 October 2003 - 9:00am

New demographics and non-traditional families are changing the nature of the U.S. social infrastructure.

"The U.S. Census Bureau's newest numbers show that married-couple households -- the dominant cohort since the country's founding -- have slipped from nearly 80% in the 1950s to just 50.7% today... What many once thought of as the fringe is becoming the new normal... The tensions between traditional families and the new households are already starting to spill out all over society -- in offices, neighborhoods, and political campaigns... Some singles are challenging zoning laws that limit the number of unrelated people who can live together, while others are forming homeowner associations that ban kids."

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Source: Business Week, October 12, 2003