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A review of recent trends in marriage and family statistics indicates the likelihood of the following future developments: continued decline in the rate of teen-age marriage and rise in the average age of women at first marriage; reductions in the relative frequency of widowhood due to increasing similarity in the age of husbands and wives, as well as to improvements in survival rates; reductions in the relative frequency of divorce and separation due to rising incomes; and some continued decline in' the average size of households and families and major increases in the proportions of unmarried individuals who maintain their own households.
Parke et al. (Mon,) studied this question.