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Family Structure and Living Arrangements

Family Structure
Following decades of decline, the proportion of children living with both parents has remained relatively stable over the last decade, dropping modestly from 69 percent in 1995 to 67 percent in 2006... > View Indicator

Percentage of Births to Unmarried Women
The percentage of births to unmarried women has steadily increased in the past few decades, from 5.3 percent in 1960 to 34.6 percent in 2003. Over a quarter of births to woman ages 25 to 29 (26.4 percent) and over half of births to woman ages 20 to 24 (53.2 percent) were to unmarried women...
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Foster Care
The number of American children in foster care rose steadily through most of the 1990s, peaking in 1999 at 567,000, and has declined since then to 513,000 in 2005 (preliminary estimate)... > View Indicator

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