We have big houses, but smaller families.

我们的房子越来越大，家庭却越来越小了。

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We have bigger houses, but smaller families.

我们有大房子，但是家庭很小。

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"The migrant worker phenomenon has led to separation of families in other countries, most notably the Philippines, but that's on a much smaller scale, and mostly cross-border," he says.

“流动打工者造成家庭成员分离的现象在其它国家也有，其中首推菲律宾，但他们的范围较小，而且大多都是跨国打工，”他说。

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More food led not to more births, but fewer, as the better-fed had smaller families.

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But the trend now is to have smaller, nuclear families and many of the country's elderly are finding themselves cast out, says the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Delhi.

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Poorer Latin American families have become smaller, which reduces inequality, but these changes were well under way in the 1980s and 1990s.

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