By Matthew Freeman. This is important.
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From the teenage years to college to adulthood through retirement, sleep is all over the place at first but then converges towards consistency.
You’ve probably heard the lines about how “40 is the new 30” or “30 is the new 20.” What is this based on? I tried to solve the problem using life expectancy data. Your age is the new age.
Nuclear is still the most common, but there are millions of households in the United States with a different family structure.
Separately, we looked at marrying age, divorce rates, and those who never married. Now let’s look at marital status all together, with the addition of the widowed status.