OCR Text |
Show newsNrVWtljyjg CHANGING LIFESTYLES The typical American O family working father, Q stay-at-home mother, two children is becoming in- O creasingly atypical. By Q 1978, more than hair of all women with children under O 18 were in the labor force; Q nearly 25 percent of all households were headed by W women. Q iC- $&sx o q The effectiveness of tech-' niques of family planning O has increased as the various methods have become better understood. Addition- O ally, contraceptive products f continue to be improved. Ortho Pharmaceutical Cor- O poration points out that its ft new oral contraceptive prod- UCt, ORTHO-NOVL'M1 135,0 provides comparable effec- tiveness to pills with higher " amounts of estrogen, and is Q specifically formulated to reduce the likelihood of " breakthrough bleeding. Q A The single population in America is rising as young O people postpone marriage or a opt for alternative life-styles: life-styles: since 1960, the num- Q ber of single men increased g by over 4 5 million, and the number of single women, by some 3.3 million. |