In the second half of the century, however, young Americans began to stay longer in their parents’ homes, and to postpone and even eschew marriage and children. Singletons became more common, perhaps more common than ever in America history.102 In short, in the two “I” periods at the beginning of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, fewer people married and had kids, and those who did, married later and had kids later, whereas in the mid-century “we” period, for virtually all Americans that “we” began with their nuclear family.
