The Nation - News from May 29, 1986

Now that the baby boom generation is maturing, the increase in the number of American households is expected to slow in the next decade and a half, the Census Bureau said. There have been sharp increases in the number of new households in recent years, as members of that giant generation born following World War II reached adulthood and began setting up housekeeping on their own. But that generation, born roughly between 1946 and the early 1960s, has for the most part completed college now and finished establishing new households.