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Download full textWojtkiewicz, Roger A.; And Others – 1988
In recent decades the proportion of women with children who head their own households has increased dramatically. The following factors have contributed to this: (1) decrease in fertility; (2) increase in divorce; (3) increased propensity for women with children to establish independent households; (4) increase in remarriage; and (5) increase in…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Black Mothers, Divorce, Family Size
