AN INCREASING LOAD FOR MOTHERS
The Population Reference Bureau will release a report this week titled “New Realities of the American Family.” It predicts that family life in the 1990s “will be marked by its diversity.” Some of the survey’s findings: One in four babies is now born to an unmarried mother, compared with one in 10 in 1970. About half of all children today will spend some part of their childhood in a single-parent home. Over half of all mothers with preschool-age kids were in the labor force in 1991, compared with one in five in 1960. Women are just as likely to be full- or part-time workers as full-time homemakers. From Newsweek, August 31, 1992
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