Word: bumpass
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Such tales are becoming abundantly familiar as American parents are forced to make room for their adult children. "There is a naive notion that children grow up and leave home when they're 18, and the truth is far from that," says Sociologist Larry Bumpass of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Today, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 59% of men and 47% of women between 18 and 24 depend on their parents for housing, some living in college dorms but most at home. In 1970 the figures were 54% and 41%. Also...
...Larry Bumpass, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin, thinks divorce numbers are falling because there are fewer marriages today, and Americans have begun to marry later. Wilson's report notes that most divorces occur fairly early in marriage, half within seven years, and only 10% of men and 7% of women getting divorces are over...
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