ce statistics. The nuclear family has been held out as the "ideal" family structure, and many have been opining in recent years that the nuclear family seems to be disappearing in a world where divorce and unwed motherhood are occurring at high rates. Many families today are single-parent families with only a mother in the household. Some of these critics see the decline of the family as corresponding to the rise of the feminist movement and the increase in women working outside the home. What seems clear is that the family structure is changing and that many people are bewildered by the changes. The American family has clearly adapted to new environmental factors and social trends, trends which were especially pronounced in the 1960s and into the 1970s as the so-called baby-boom generation of children born immediately after World War II ca
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