"The typical American family does not have the same structure as a generation ago," said Dr. Susan Brown, Bowling Green State University professor of sociology and co-director of the National Center for Family and Marriage Research.
"Social and economic dynamics have contributed to greater complexity and diversity in today's families," Brown said. "A household headed by a married mother and father who are both the biological parents of their children is no longer the most common version of today's family."
"When I think of the families I know personally, I realize what used to be thought of as normal isn't the norm anymore. I know grandparents with custody of their grandchildren; a woman who, on her own, is raising the son of her ex-husband and another woman. I know families patched together with half, full and step siblings. Couples with "fur babies." Families who foster, adopt, inherit and just plain old open their door to stray kids...."
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