Research Paper on:
Career Development and Family Changes

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than ever before. Typically, that one parent is a mother with significantly less earning power than the absent father. When there are two parents at home, most often, both parents  work. This leaves children in the care of others or, in some cases, going home to empty homes without supervision of any kind. Other changes in the family structure  involve what is called the non-traditional family. Never married women who have chosen to have a child. Gay couples having children through adoption or by having their own child. Children  being raised by step-parents, sometimes a series of step-parents, called blended families. Families are smaller today with couples choosing to have fewer children. And, unlike decades ago, many families  are scattered across the states leaving parents without the physical support of extended family members to help raise the children. Blundo reported these data, comparing 1900 to 1999: * In  1900, the average household was comprised of 4.76 people compared to 2.64 in 1999 (Blundo, 1999). * Divorce rates were lower, 0.7 per 1,000 marriages compared to 4.3, but that  rate has jumped to 50 percent (Blundo, 1999). * In 1900, only 8.5 percent of children lived in single-parent homes compared to 28 percent in 1999 but that number has  also jumped to more than one-third of children today (Blundo, 1999). * Women married younger. The average age was 21.1 years compared to 24 but that age has also increased  according to news reports (Blundo, 1999). These data do not include the fact that tens of thousands of couples have at least one parent traveling as much as two  hours each way to work. Up until at least the mid-1960s, more mothers stayed at home taking care of children and home than worked. Families ate dinner together and