The implosion of the 'typical American family'

Source: Business Insider

The typical American family — a happily married mother and father with two children who live under one roof — has slowly deteriorated over the last 50 years. Mark Harris for BIFor most of the 20th century, the word "family" in America evoked a predictable picture of cookie-cutter cleanliness: the happily married husband and wife, their 2. 5 kids, and one improbably well-behaved golden retriever, all under the same roof.