nemoest
Information Is BeautifulHow the makeup of US households have changed 1960 vs today
(by @VisualCapitalist)
Morgan ⚧️@infobeautiful good, tbh. Pretty much everyone I know was neglected as a child, because one or two adults are rarely enough to take care of one child, let alone as many as our parents were having. What isn't going to be shown in the graph* is a lot of us who don't "have" kids, biologically or legally, but still put in the effort to take care of the kids in our lives. I hope this and polyamory can lead to kids who actually get their needs met and grow up into well-adjusted and kind adults
@infobeautiful *with the exception of those who actually live with the kids. A former household of mine would've been included in the "other" category
Ho Ho Ho Like The Slur@infobeautiful interesting to see married no kids is slowly dropping
Todd Horowitz@coolandnormal @infobeautiful I would call .01%/year pretty steady.
normie@infobeautiful not only are more women not being forced to have kids they don't want but not being forced to be married
everyone has more agency and is having the situations they wanted
positive progress
Steffi the Redhead@infobeautiful roommates 😅😁
🌸 Vårgubben@infobeautiful They say it takes a village to raise a child.
Would have been interesting to see if there’s a difference between urban and rural environments in the composition of households/families.
I love you, I am proud of you!@infobeautiful notice how the graph starts during the birth years of Baby Boomers, making it look like a population decline due to the fact that the government used incentives to make people have more children after WWII, only to later call women who lost husbands to war etc, welfare queens for not remarrying with the children?
Miakoda 
@infobeautiful It's too fucking expensive to have kids, and everything is too shitty to inflict that on a new sentient being.
diana 🏳️⚧️🦋🌱"Unmarried with cats" 😻😻
Jude🇵🇸@infobeautiful How the makeup ... 'has' changed...
Daniel Hritzkiv@infobeautiful I’m guessing “Unmarried parents” falls under the “other” category? Which, if so, feels low, unless it’s just overrepresented in my bubble. Unless “married” also refers to common law partnerships.
George Saich@infobeautiful Only 25% breeders. We are going to need immigrants.