Santi L L
Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706.
Demography. 1988 Nov;25(4):509-19.
This article examines recent changes in the structure of American households within the context of broad population changes. Decreases in married-couple households and increases in single-parent households are almost entirely due to the changing patterns of marriage, divorce, fertility, and child custody; headship rates for families have remained relatively stable. Increases in single-person and other nonfamily households are due to increases in the size of the unmarried, childless population and to the aging of this population. Increasing propensities to live alone or with nonrelatives were observed between 1970 and 1980, but these behavioral changes have abated during the early 1980s.
本文在广泛的人口变化背景下，研究了美国家庭结构最近的变化。夫妻家庭数量的减少和单亲家庭数量的增加几乎完全归因于婚姻、离婚、生育和子女监护模式的变化；家庭户主率一直保持相对稳定。单人家庭和其他非家庭户的增加归因于未婚、无子女人口规模的扩大以及这一人群的老龄化。1970年至1980年间，人们独居或与非亲属同住的倾向有所增加，但这些行为变化在20世纪80年代初有所缓和。
