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...Americans who are 100 years or older, according to a new Census Bureau report...
Sources: Boulder police and TIME Denver bureau; AP; U.S. Census Bureau...
...BABY MAKES THREE The days of the large family are history. According to Only Child News and the U.S. Census Bureau, a third of American families started today will have only one child. Three-member families increased from 10 million in 1972 to more than 15 million today, and one-child families outnumber those with two children. Experts say couples are having fewer kids because of improved contraception and because women are better educated and working outside the home in greater numbers...
Dialogues about difference are going on in an increasing number of American households that have been made multiracial through either intermarriage or transracial adoption. The Census Bureau estimates that there are more than 1.3 million interracial marriages. Nearly a third of the children adopted from the public foster-care system are placed with families of a different race. And in the past decade, the number of children adopted from China, for example, has jumped from less than 200 to more than 4,000. You see it even in Hollywood, where Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise and Michelle Pfeiffer are parents...
...approach, however, that requires diligence on the part of the parents. Project race (Reclassify All Children Equally)--a campaign started by Ryan Graham, a biracial Florida teenager, and his mother Susan--has won changes in the act college-entrance-exam forms and some minor alterations in the U.S. Census form as well as on some local and state government forms. But most of society has not yet taken to the concept of biracial identity. Most government forms don't include a multiracial box, and it's usually up to the parent to make sure a child isn't compartmentalized...