In 1960, over 70 percent of all American households were made up of a working father, a homemaker mother, and their children. Today, “traditional” families with a working husband, an ____1____ wife, and one or more children make up less than 15 percent of the nation’s households. As American families have changed, the __2__ of the family in the media has changed accordingly. Today’s families ____3____both parents working to single mothers and their children and ______4______ who live in the same house. In a decade, divorce rates ______5______. The rapid increase in the divorce rates ______6______ a _______7_______ in the number of single-parent households or what used to be known as broken homes. The number of households consisting of a single woman and her children has increased by three times since 1960. As late as 1940, less than 12 percent of white married women were in the _____8_____; today the ___9___ is nearly 60 percent and over half of all mothers of pre-schoolers work outside the home. As wives have assumed a larger role in their family’s _______10________, they have felt justified in demanding that husbands ____11____ more child care and housework. Today, over two-thirds of all three-to-five year olds take part in a day care, ______12_______, or pre-kindergarten ___13___, compared to a fifth in 1970.