During the next decade the situation changed in many places. There were fewer divorces, and people married at younger age and had more children than in the previous generation. Men made enough money to support the family, so a mother seldom worked outside the home when her children were small. Children began living at home longer - that is, until an older age, usually after high school or even college. The traditional family was returning in the United States, it seemed - as in many other countries.