Minority Youths Dept: Preliminary census estimates also show the share of African-American households headed by women mostly single mothers now exceeds African-American households with married couples. That s a sign of declining marriages overall in the U.S., but also of the challenges that face black youths who don t have involved fathers, according to The Star. Demographers say the numbers provide the clearest confirmation yet of a changing social order, one in which racial and ethnic minorities will collectively become the U.S. majority by midcentury and wASHINGTON For the first time, minorities make up a majority of babies in the U.S., part of a sweeping race change and a growing age divide between older mostly white Americans and predominantly minority youths that could reshape government policies. The findings, based on the latest government data, offer a preview of final 2010 census results being released this summer, which will provide detailed breakdowns by age, race and household relationships. As
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