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In fact, according to the housing statistics, there has been a steadyincrease in the proportion of couples residing without children, and singleperson households have increased dramatically. Between 1970 and 1990 thelatter increased by 50 per cent and the proportion of houses solely occupiedby couples increased by more than 60 per cent. By 2000 they wereapproximately one-quarter and one-fifth of all households respectively (FF J2002:18). Many of these are couples, or widows and widowers, whose children have left home, but it is impossible to tell whether or not they are nearenough to help out. Other single-person households are young peoplebefore marriage, and the age of marriage is steadily rising. Some are thosewhose marriages have broken up, and there is also an increase in the divorcerate and the proportion of single-parent families. Finally, there is apparentlyan increase both in the number of people who choose not to marry at all and those who decide, though married, not to have children. Jolivet (1997) has some interesting personal accounts
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