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Only 18% Of US Households Are Now Nuclear Families
If you and your siblings grew up in a stable two-parent household within the last 30 years or so, you might have felt like the odd ones out at times among classmates and friends.
By Gwen Farrell4 min read
It’s no secret that the number of two-parent families has been steadily falling since the 1950s, when the term “nuclear family” was first coined and attributed to a prosperous, post-war baby boom. But now, those households are becoming increasingly rare. The U.S. Census Bureau found that this year, in fact, the rate of two-parent households in the U.S. is lower than it’s been since 1959: only 17.8%.