PEEKING THROUGH THE KEYHOLE

Makeshift FAMILIES
single divorced widowed single parent couple married children teenagers university-students seniors
parents live at home/ growing up/ not growing away


Defining HOUSEHOLDS
Over 110 million households in USA + Canada ( growing at 1 million per year)
1/5 of all 23 year olds live at home
1/2 families are categorized as " non-families"
1/4 households are made up of married couples with children ( half of 1960 statistics)
1/10 households have more than 5 people living together
2 kids per average
1/4 homes belong to a single occupant ( tripled from 1940s statistics)
1/3 women remain unwed by her thirties (1/10 in the 1960s)
1/4 of all children under 18 live with one parent ( double the 1970s rate)
4/10 do not live with their biological fathers
3/10 children live with a divorced parent/ or never got married (1/10 is the 1960s statistic)
1/3 babies born to unwed couples ( 1/20 is the 1960s statistics)
7/10 mothers work for pay
1/4 of preschool children are in day care


4-5 hours a day is spent interacting in a house


Domestic arrangements become challenging and complex. 
Yet we haven't changed the structure of our living environments. 
A house still looks like a house.


sources: 
www. cmhc-schl.gc.ca
www.nahb.com
www.prb.org
www.statcan.ca