Just 18% of US households are ‘nuclear families’ with a married couple and children, down from 40% since 1970s and the lowest since 1959

The Census Bureau’s count showed that 17.8 percent of the United States’ 130 million households featured married parents with children under the age of 18
That’s only down from 18.6 percent from last year but down much more significantly from over 40 percent in 1970
There are currently just 23.1 million American homes with those ‘nuclear families,’ which is the fewest since 1959
The reasons given for the drop include the pandemic delaying marriage and a continued decline in birth rate