>> And this was accompanied by skyrocketing divorce rates: married couples with children made up 40 per cent of households in 1970, but only a quarter in 1990.

>> And this was accompanied by skyrocketing divorce rates: married couples with children made up 40 per cent of households in 1970, but only a quarter in 1990. The proportion of households with children would be interesting to know: the married couples with children could have diminished in proportion because boomers had aged out of living with their parents and had set up their own households without children (yet).