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Today’s parents rate raising children to think for themselves a 4.4 on a scale of 1 to 5. Independent thinking ranks far higher than raising children to work hard (3.2), help others (3.2), obey (2.8), or be well liked (1.4). Apparently, popularity is not viewed as an avenue to success.
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Today’s parents rate raising children ... Alwin “Historical Changes,” 32.
Over half of new mothers today ... U.S. Bureau of the Census, “Fertility of American Women: June 1990,” Current Population Reports, Series P20, no. 454 (October 1991), 5.
Sixty-three percent of children under ... U.S. Bureau of the Census, “Who’s Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements: Fall 1988,” Current Population Reports, Series P 70, no. 30 (August 1992), 6.
Only 61 percent of children today ... National Center for Health Statistics, “Family Structure and Children’s Health: United States, 1988,” Vital and Health Statistics, Series 10, no. 178 (June 1991), 6.
Of the twenty-one meals people eat ...”The Four Faces of the American Family,” Parents, cited in Research Alert (Winter 1991), 6.
It is no coincidence that the first ... James McNeal, “Children as Customers,” American Demographics (September 1990), 36.
Today, children aged 4 to 12 have ... Valerie Reitman, “Those Little Kids Have Big Pockets,” The Wall Street Journal (26 August 1992), B1.
By the age of 7, most children ... McNeal “Children as Customers,” 39.
More than half of 18 to 24 year ... U.S. Bureau of the Census, “Marital Status and Living Arrangements: March 1991,” Current Population Reports, Series P20, no. 461 (April 1992), 11.
In fact, those most likely ... Joyce Munsch, Phyllis Moen, Donna Dempster-McClain, Robin M. Williams Jr., “Refilling the Empty Nest: Family and Maternal Characteristics as Predictors of the Return of Young Adults,” presentation at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (March 1991).
A growing share of students is ... Joseph Berger, “Dropout Rate Down Sharply for New York Schools,” The New York Times (20 May 1992), B2.
On average, it takes today’s college ... U.S. Bureau of the Census, “What’s It Worth?” 7; Martha Farnsworth Riche, “The Boomerang Age,” American Demographics (May 1990), 30.
Demographers report that there’s ... Arland Thornton, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Frances Goldscheider, “Living Arrangements During the Transition to Adulthood,” paper presented at the Population Association of American Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (March 1991), 1.
A majority of high school seniors ... Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, Youth Indicators 1991—Trends in the Well-Being of American Youth (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991), 132.
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Russell, C. (1993). The Next Generation of Free Agents. In: The Master Trend. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6016-0_9
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