Between 1956 and 1990, the median age at first marriage rose from 20.1 to 24 for women and from 22.5 to 26 for men. In 1960, family means husband and wife living together with their children, father the head, earns the income, gives his name to wife and children. Today, great decrease in the proportion of women favoring large family, both husbands and wives should be able to work, have roughly similar opportunities, share household responsibilities and child rearing.
Most American children spend part of their childhood in a single-parent family.
One fifth of young American children raised in poverty. The evidence clearly indicates that men are sharing very little of the burden of raising children and care of the home. Not only are mothers home much less, fathers do not seem to spend more time at home to compensate. Married couples with children, high birth rates, low divorce rates, high marital stability.