Fascinating to see that the big change in family income over the last 200 years wasn't the shift from male breadwinners to dual-income or female breadwinners It was the dramatic decline of the "clan-based" economic unit, such as family farms or family-owned stores https://t.co/QfvlGItO6Q
As of 2014, America ceased to have a dominant family structure (what many of us used to imagine as two parents with 2.5 kids). Diversity and fluidity have shot up, driven by cohabitation, divorce, remarriage and non-marital recoupling. In one study over a three-year period, about a third of kids who were younger than six years old had already
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