Explores a step that young American adults are increasingly taking- setting a household alone or with housemates.

Frances K. Goldscheider is professor of sociology at Brown University. She is co-author of New Families, No Families? The Transformation of the American Home. Calvin Goldscheider is professor of sociology and Judaic studies at Brown University. His many books include The Transformation of the Jews and Population, Family Structure and Mobility. Frances and Calvin Goldscheider have published two other books together, The Ethnic Factor in Family Structure and Mobility and Ethnicity and the New Family Economy. Both are research associates at RAND Corporation.