University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1984
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More Americans live alone Census Bureau report says
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The percentage of Americans living alone in 1984 is on the increase in a resumption of a trend that began in the 1970s but was interrupted by the last recession, the Census Bureau said yesterday.
Young people are leaving their parents' homes to set up separate housekeeping before they get married, postponing marriage longer and then getting divorced at a high rate, the figures showed.
The result is an increase in what the government considers separate households and comprises a gain of 1.5 million in 1984 after the trend nearly stood still in the 1982-1983 period.
Within the overall trend are dramatic but less sweeping changes, mainly the increase in families
headed by single women and in the number of young adults in their 20s and early 30s who have never married.
There was also an increase in unmarried couples, reaching a total of about 2 million in 1984 of whom about 36 percent had been divorced. The total was only about 523,000 19 years earlier. The unmarried couples accounted for only about 4 percent of all couples in the nation.
All the households in the nation, including those maintained by single people and married and unmarried persons,达 85.4 million as of March of this year.
The interruption of the process of household formation during the recession had been a surprise but a lasting change in direction.
themselves with household formation were a little shocked we got no increase at all."
Steve Rawlings, census specialist,
said, "Those people who concern
But the new figures show the old trends of young people "forming some independent living arrangements prior to forming a full-fledged family, postponing marriage and having children," he said. Raiser reasserting themselves, he said.
"Currently one out of two marriages, we are projecting, will eventually end in divorce." Rawlings said.
The result of the national statistics are increases in the number of men living alone and women left raising their children without husbands.
"Although the divorce rate has stabilized somewhat, it stabilized at a high level, a major contributor to women who end up forced to maintain a family alone," Rawlings said.
College offices reorganized for assistance
By the Kansan Staff
7 The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has reorganized four offices in Strong Hall to make life easier for students who need help with enrollment this fall.
"Last year the undergraduate services were spread out in four different places on two floors," said J. Michael Young, associate dean of
the college. "We found that from the point of view of efficiency, it was desirable to have all the offices on a single floor."
Three offices — the undergraduate services office in room 106, the undergraduate records office in room 102 and the graduation office in room 108 — are on the first floor of Strong Hall at the west end of the building. The dean's office in room 206 is directly above those offices.
"I hopefully, a student who can't get a question answered in one office simply needs to walk across the hall," Young said.
The undergraduate records office contains students' academic records. Young said Students must present a photo of another photo ID to obtain transcripts.
Students who plan to graduate in December need to apply for a degree in the graduation office. Young said
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