{"id":37018,"date":"2011-06-26T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=37018"},"modified":"2013-11-11T02:42:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T07:42:53","slug":"less-marriage-and-more-cohabitation-in-los-angeles-2000-vs-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/06\/26\/less-marriage-and-more-cohabitation-in-los-angeles-2000-vs-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Less Marriage and More Cohabitation in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katrin sent along a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-0623-census-marriage-families-20110623,0,3978165.story\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> article<\/a> reporting on how family composition in the LA area has changed in the past decade. \u00a0The short story is that families are less &#8220;traditional&#8221; than they were ten years ago. \u00a0Only 23% of households are now made up of a married couple with kids (down 10% since 2000). Meanwhile, single-parent families, non-married partners (with and without kids), and same-sex couples (with and without kids)\u00a0have all increased by 20-25%. \u00a0Married couples without kids are up too (by 4%), they&#8217;re now 26% of all households.<\/p>\n<p>The maps below show the percent of households in each census tract that include an unmarried couple living together. \u00a0Darker orange means a greater percentage. \u00a0You can see that this convention-breaking isn&#8217;t evenly distributed. \u00a0I think the big orange blob underneath Burbank is Silver Lake\/Echo Park, a notoriously hip part of the city where you find lots of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/20\/bourdieu-the-%E2%80%9Chipster%E2%80%9D-and-the-authenticity-of-taste\/\" target=\"_blank\">hipsters<\/a>,&#8221; and Hollywood, where the population of same-sex couples is likely higher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/111.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37020\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/111.png\" width=\"479\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/121.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37021\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/121.png\" width=\"475\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Los Angelenos, do you see anything else interesting?<\/p>\n<p>See also the amusing: <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/18\/in-honor-of-california-ruling-that-same-sex-couples-have-a-constitutional-right-to-marriage\/\">What Does a Traditional Family Look Like?<\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katrin sent along a link to a Los Angeles Times article reporting on how family composition in the LA area has changed in the past decade. \u00a0The short story is that families are less &#8220;traditional&#8221; than they were ten years ago. \u00a0Only 23% of households are now made up of a married couple with kids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8080,272,54],"class_list":["post-37018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-housingresidential-segregation","tag-marriagefamily","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37018"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58818,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37018\/revisions\/58818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}