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What you'll learn to do: recognize variations in family life<\/h2>\r\n\"A\r\n\r\nAs a reminder, marriage and family are social institutions, but that does not mean that people's concepts of marriage and family in the United States are\u00a0static. As discussed in the previous sections, increases in cohabitation, same-sex partners, multiple divorces and remarriages,\u00a0and singlehood are altering our understanding of marriage. Similarly, single parents, same-sex parents, cohabitating parents, and unwed parents are changing our notion of what it means to be a family.\u00a0In fact, only 46% of children today live with two parents who are both on their first marriage.","rendered":"

What you’ll learn to do: recognize variations in family life<\/h2>\n

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As a reminder, marriage and family are social institutions, but that does not mean that people’s concepts of marriage and family in the United States are\u00a0static. As discussed in the previous sections, increases in cohabitation, same-sex partners, multiple divorces and remarriages,\u00a0and singlehood are altering our understanding of marriage. Similarly, single parents, same-sex parents, cohabitating parents, and unwed parents are changing our notion of what it means to be a family.\u00a0In fact, only 46% of children today live with two parents who are both on their first marriage.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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