Tag: cohabitation
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in Central America, China, Demography, Ecclesia, Globalization, Health and Medicine, Humor, Immigration, International Affairs, Links – Saturday, Poverty, Race, Religion, Sociology, Sports and Entertainment, Technology (Digital, Telecom, & Internet), Technology (Energy), Technology (Manufacturing & Construction)), Trends: Economic, Trends: SocialSome weeks the pickin's are thin. Not this week. 1. Asians are now the largest immigrant group in Southern California: New Suburban Dream Born of Asia and Southern California 2. Surge in unwed mothers: Deep in the stats, it's not what you think According to the US Centers for Disease Control, 42 percent of children…
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Saturday Links
1. The World's Fastest-Growing Megacities The modern megacity may have been largely an invention of the West, but it's increasingly to be found largely in the East. The seven largest megacities (defined as areas of continuous urban development of over 10 million people) are located in Asia, based on a roundup of the latest population…
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The Generation That Can’t Move On Up
Wall Street Journal: The Generation That Can't Move On Up Most people assume that working-class members of the baby-boomer generation have been hurt the most by the outsourcing and automation in which millions of factory jobs moved overseas or disappeared into computer chips, a shift recently compounded by recession. But actually it may be their…
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Census reports more unmarried couples living together
USA Today: Census reports more unmarried couples living together The number of opposite-sex couples who live together, less than a million 30 years, hit 6.4 million in 2007, show federal data released Monday. Cohabiting couples now make up almost 10% of all opposite-sex U.S. couples, married and unmarried. That's up from 2006, when the Census…
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Marry, marry? Quite contrary.
Boston Globe: Marry, marry? Quite contrary Washington-based Child Trends, in a research brief published in May using the National Center for Education Statistics' Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, finds that 52 percent of nonmarital births are to cohabiting couples. The University of Wisconsin's Center for Demography and Ecology reached the same conclusion in a working paper…
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Cohabitation, unwed motherhood soaring in younger generation
USA Today: Cohabitation, unwed motherhood soaring in younger generation Younger adults tend to worry less about the stigma attached to having a child or living together without being married, finds new research that shows a generation gap in behaviors related to marriage, divorce, parenthood and cohabitation. A Pew Research Center survey released today, says these…