"The American Family in the Year 2000"
ecycli~gthe Andrew Cherlin and Frank F. Fursten-
berg, Jr., in The Futurist (June 1983),
World Future Society, 4916 St. Elmo
Ave., Bethesda, Md. 20814.
During the past two decades, the American family changed so rapidly that its very future sometimes seemed in doubt.
From 1960 to 1980, the U.S. divorce rate doubled and the birthrate dropped from a 20th-century high to an all-time low. Cherlin and Furs- tenberg, sociologists at Johns Hopkins...