During the next decade (a period of ten years), the situation changed in many places. There were fewer divorces, and people married at a 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.