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What Are The Major Changes In American Family Families

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In the last two decades, American families have gone through major changes that exert dramatic influences on family life. Due to increased divorce rates, single parent families with children under 18 accounted for 28 percent--23 percent single mothers, 5 percent single fathers--of the family households in 1999 (Paulin and Lee 2002). In 2000 (the date of the most recent complete U.S. Census data), there were 10 million single mothers and 2 million single fathers

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