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Period: to
Divorce rate for Groups rose
African-Americans 4.4%, Hispancis 3.9%, Whites 3.1 % rose in divorce from their previous statistics -
Percentage of Families headed by married couples
84.5% Asian-Americans, 80.6% Hispanic families, 68.3% of African-American families -
Period: to
Proportion of married-couple families among all households declined
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84.5% of Asian-American family households were headed by married couples
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Recession, increased divorce rates
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Divorce Rates Level off
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Racial Divorce Rates
African-American 11.3%, non-Hispanic whites 10.4%, Asian-Americans 4.1%, and Hispanics 7.1% were divorced -
2/5 or 40% of all working mothers relied on informal childcare
The most common type of informal childcare was grandparents -
80.7% of non-Hispanic white familes were married-cople families, drop from 1970
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The proportion of Asian-American family households headed by married couples, decreased to 18.2%
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African-American families were headed by married-couple families dropped to 44.7%
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23.3 Million adults ages 15 years and older were divorce