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Families (By the Numbers)
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Family and Household Demographics
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Multiple Generation / Extended Family Households
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Birth Rate / Fertility / Family Size
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Population (General Facts)
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Aging (General Facts)
Family Roles and Responsibilities
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Mothers and Daughters
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Fathers and Sons
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Fatherhood (Analysis)
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Grandparents
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Stepfamilies
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Childless by Choice (Analysis)
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Single Parents
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Single Parents (Trend Analysis)
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Same-Sex Partners / Families
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How Important Is Family?
Families At Work and Play
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Caregivers in the Workforce
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Families at Work
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How People Spend Their Time
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Housework
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Time Use (Trend Analysis)
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Child Care
Children
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Modern Child Development
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Adoption
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Foster Care
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Demographics on Children
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Children At Risk
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Children in Ancient History
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Children in European and American History
Becoming An Adult
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Education
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What Makes You a Grown-up?
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Delaying Marriage
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Moving Back Home
Love and Marriage
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Love
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Marriage, Part One (Societal and Historical Views)
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Marriage, Part Two (By the Numbers)
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Unmarried Partners / Families
Family Structures
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Family Structure - International
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Family Structure - US Colonial to 1899
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Family Structure - US 1900 to Pre-WWII
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Family Structure - US Modern Era (WWII to Present)
Family as a Social Institution
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Definitions of Family
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Analysis of Family as and in Social Institutions
Family Economic Issues
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Keeping Up With the Joneses
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Housing
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Poverty
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"Ozzie and Harriet" Land
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American Dream (Trend Analysis)
Families in Motion
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Industrialization / Urbanization
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Migration
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The Rise of Suburbia
Families in Crisis
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Marriage / Divorce Analysis
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Domestic Violence
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Family Dissolution
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Divorce
Families In Decline?
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Idealization of the Family / Forecasts for the Future
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Is the Family in Decline? (Demographics)
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Is the Family In Decline? (analysis)
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What's the Family Going to Look Like?
Families Around the World (By Region)
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North America
North America (Part One)
North America (Part Two)
North America (Part Three)
North America (Part Four)
Ethnic Types within the U.S.
Asian-American Families
Pacific Islander Families in the U.S.
Hispanic-American Families
African-American Families
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Central and South America / the Caribbean
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Europe (Part One)
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Europe (Part Two)
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Europe (Part Three)
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Asia / Pacific Rim (Part One)
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Asia / Pacific Rim (Part Two)
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Africa (Part One / Sub-Saharan Africa)
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Africa (Part Two / Arabia Africa ) and the Middle East
Sources for
Why Do I Love These People?
and
The Factbook
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Why Do I Love These People?
"Halftime" Chapter With Annotations
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Why Do I Love These People?
Appendix With Annotations
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Factbook Sources
Tables
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Families Tables
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Marriage And Dissolution Tables
Topic Index for the Casual Browser
