Race, Ethnicity, and Family Size in the United States

Saran Seegars

This paper explores four different races, which consist of White, Black, Asian, and Hispanic, along with their ethnicities and their family/household sizes in the United States. In the United States, family sizes are decreasing from what they were. Not that many people are having kids in their twenties. People are getting; their education first, no matter if it is a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree. They will rest or spend time to themselves before they decide to start their own family. Individuals also wait by first developing their foothold in the workforce before settling down to start up their own family. Besides starting a family later on in life, people also prefer to stay single, then go out and begin their own family, increasing the gap of individuals not wanting to push out bigger household sizes. White householders make up the majority of households in the United States. Followed by Blacks, then Hispanics, and finally Asian householders make up the smallest householders in the United States. Although small families are considered the norm, many people continue to have large families. This project compares trends in family size within different groups.

• Saran Seegars graduated from Dixie High School in Due West. She is currently a senior in sociology. She will also be graduating this spring.