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Changing life-styles have contributed to the eating-out boom. There are more one-parent households, more working mothers, more fast-tracking singles who have little time or inclination for an evening over a hot stove. "People eat out more because they are out of the house more," says Carl DeBiase, a partner in the research firm Restaurant Trends. For city dwellers, many of whom live alone in cramped apartments, restaurants have become a place to escape and socialize. "As rents skyrocket and the amount of space per person dwindles, the American kitchen has lost priority in urban centers," says...
...explosion of single people living alone. Some 20.6 million Americans now live by themselves, a 90% jump in one-person households over 15 years. Much of this is due to widowhood or divorce, as is the near doubling since 1970 of single people who head households. Single-parent families now account for 14.3% of U.S. households...
...voucher idea is nothing if not controversial. Miriam Rosenberg, government-relations specialist for the National Parent Teacher Association, called Bennett's proposal an "inappropriate and possibly unconstitutional transfer of public tax dollars to private and especially private religious schools." Others argued that $600 would not go far toward private day-school tuition or even the pupil cost in an upscale suburban school (typically...
...this week's cover, TIME correspondents talked to scores of expectant mothers in clinics, schools, teen centers, adoption agencies and welfare offices. Angela Helton, 15, the blue-eyed blond on our cover, attends the Teenage Parent Program of the Jefferson County, Ky., public schools and is now the mother of a son, Corey. Photographer Duane Michals, who took Helton's picture and those of many other pregnant teens, observes: "They came across as girls, not women. They seemed to be playing house. A lot of them did not understand the enormousness of having a child...
...disposables from CVS drugstores to pricey models that record to DVD instead of digital tape. But for artful documentation of family fun this summer, the sweet spot belongs to midrange cams, priced as low as $300. Thanks to tech advances--and kickin' free editing software--any kid or parent can indulge a filmmaking jones at modest cost, with great results. Our director's guide...