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# The Dysfunctional Society
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2082/
- Published: 2005-08-19T11:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2005-08-19T11:30:00.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Family, #wpChunk

Single-adult families are now the most common household in America. Studies of all stripes consistently prove that kids are better off with a married mother and father and that kids without that stable foundation are more likely to encounter a host of troubles later. No matter, we're dealing with the indulging society and if adults want to be irresponsible, we gotta let 'em:

> 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.

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