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This chapter looks at nonfamily living in private households in Latin America. Nonfamily living includes living in a solitary household but in total is much more than that, for many households have a family core and other members who are not part of that core. Among the questions to consider are who lives in a nonfamily situation, whether there is a life-course dimension to being in this situation, and why families might reside with people unrelated to them. Could the level of nonfamily living primarily be an indicator of level of socioeconomic development and/or of the family system? Could the answer depend on what type of nonfamily living is involved? These are some of the questions I try to address.
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The Manchester figure is calculated from information in Hareven (1982). The Canada figure is calculated from information in United Nations, 1987 Demographic Yearbook.
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De Vos, S.M. (1995). Nonfamily Living. In: Household Composition in Latin America. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1841-9_3
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