| Summary: | Although the married-with-children family type currently accounts for only 23.5 percent of all households, according to Census 2000, its share has declined by only 2.1 percent since 1990, compared with a 9.9 percent decline between 1970 and 1980 and a 4.8 percent decline during the 1980s. In addition, these reputed traditional families registered an increase of 5.7 percent during the 1990s, in contrast to numeric declines during the prior two decades. The stronger-than-expected showing can be largely attributed to the population growth of immigrant Asians and Hispanics, who are more likely to form this family type, and to the lifestyle choices of Generation Xers (those born between 1965 and 1976), who have entered their household-forming years.
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