A comic by Marcos Balfagón attaches action to the curve.
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We keep getting bigger. Watch overweight and obesity rates move up over several decades.
In high school, we spend most of our days with friends and immediate family. But then we get jobs, start a family, retire, and there’s a shift in who we spend our days with.
Articles about stay-at-home dads and parents with even work loads might make it seem like dads are putting in a lot of hours in the household these days. Are they? How do they compare to moms’ work hours?
Using a century of data, we watch the shift of marital status in the United States.