Fertility rates in the United States are going down. When this happens, drastic changes are made to social family trends. A good example of this is the housing industry. During the baby boom era, families were drastically larger on average than they are today. When these baby boomers buy homes now, or when their children buy homes now, they are used to needing bigger homes, when in reality, families are sometimes twice as small today.
This change in society may seem small, but it effects more than one industry, and actually effects family lives of people that work in those industries. When societal norms change and shift, individual family lives change. Families function differently in order to change with these norms and adjust to economic and other such changes. One shift in society can change the entire dynamic of a family system.
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