Behavior: All Our Children

Setting the American family in political perspective

> There has been a 700% increase in the number of children affected by divorce since the turn of the century.

> Now 54% of married women with school-age children work outside the home, v. only 26% in 1948.

> Of 1,000 children born into the ranks of America's most affluent, 326 will still be there as adults, while only four out of every 1,000 born in the lowest strata will ever move up to the highest.

> By age 16, the average child will have watched TV for 12,000...

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