Assignment 2 Part 1

1. The third bullet point was very interesting because it states that married-couple households would be a contributing factor to the raise in the growth of families, even though the number of married-couple households would decrease. This took me a while to understand because the two factors are contradicting, while lead me to blame this contradiction on the fact that our population is vastly growing everyday.

2. I feel like these statistics would be very confusing to someone with little to no knowledge on the subject, but after taking countless college courses on things of this nature, these statistics are not very surprising to me due to two major factors, including the growth of our population and the societal change of view in having children. These numbers are bound to increase from 1995 to 2010 because our population in the US is constantly growing, and I feel like societies view on waiting to get married and have children is to blame for those parts of the chart where the 1995 categories is beating 2010, such as two parent and mother households with children.

3.The chart, in a nut shell, basically shows that our population in 2010 is living without children, whether is be from the increase of living married with no children and living alone or the decrease in two parents and mother households with children.

3a. The families with higher percentages in 1995 are those with children, more specifically two parents households with children and mother households with children.

3b. The type of families that are becoming less the norm are these families with children. The chart shows that there are significant increases in people living alone or only with a spouse, while there are decreases in families with children.

4. I expect these trends of single and childless living to continue for the next 5 to 10 years, as I feel my generation strongly believes in having children at older ages. With that being said, when I am 70, due to so many people holding off on marriage in their younger years, I feel like the statistics will switch and family households with children will overwhelm those of childless households.