Family Statistics

• Families in 2000 will average 1.81 children, down from 1.84 today.
• Some 60 percent of kids born in the ‘80s will live for a time with one parent;
• One kid in four will live with a stepparent by age 16.
• One third of all households will be childless. . .
• Supporting a teenager still at home will cost $12,000 a year against $7,000 now.
• Kids who head to college in 2000 will need upwards of $100,000 for each bachelor’s degree.

U.S. News and World Report, December 25, 1989