Abstract
In 1966, researchers at UCLA fielded the first of what was to become an annual survey that continues to this day. The survey probed the backgrounds and attitudes of the nation’s college freshmen. It was a lucky coincidence that this survey captured the attitudes of the first wave of baby boomers as they reached maturity The battery of questions posed to 18 year olds, born in the first few years of the baby boom, revealed as much about the changing spirit of the times as their answers revealed about the college students themselves.
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Please indicate the importance ... Dey, Astin, and Korn, The American Freshman, 122.
In 1966, more than one in four ... Ibid.
Only 7 percent of all Americans ... Family Values, MassMutual American Family Values Program, 1991 American Family Values Study: A Return to Family Values (Springfield, MA: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1991), 10.
Most Americans—including baby ... Roper Reports 89–1 (1989), 3.
When asked to identify the top ... Roper’s The Public Pulse Research Supplement (July 1991), 1.
Among the 94 million households ... U.S. Bureau of the Census, “Household and Family Characteristics: March 1991,” 3, 153; U.S.Bureau of the Census, “Households, Families, Marital Status and Living Arrangements: March 1988 (Advance Report),” Current Population Reports, P20, no. 432 (September 1988), 10.
Baby boom women married late ... U.S. Bureau of the Census, “Marital Status: 1990,” 2.
Baby boomers remained childless ... U.S. Bureau of the Census, “Fertility of American Women,” 13.
Baby boomers divorced readily ... National Center for Health Statistics, ‘Advance Report of Final Divorce Statistics, 1988,” Monthly Vital Statistics Report, vol. 39, no. 12, Supplement 2 (21 May 1991), 7.
In 1960, Americans could expect ... David Popenoe, “The Family Transformed,” Family Affairs (Summer/Fall 1989), 2.
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Russell, C. (1993). The Fight against Obligations. In: The Master Trend. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6016-0_16
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