In 1998-99, there were 4.2m children a third of all children living in such households.
By 1998, only 52% of children lived in such households, and Mr Smith reckons that in the next century they will be in the minority.
However, the Crime Survey suggested that there were 9.1 million offences committed against households and resident adults in England and Wales and 0.9 million against children aged 10-15 living in such households.
Many young people in their twenties have children with a cohabiting partner, but these cohabiting relationships have proven to be quite unstable, leading to a lot of turmoil for both the children and the adults in such households.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said there were 3.7 million such households in the UK between April and June this year, or about 17.9% of all households.
Three years ago, at the height of a property bubble, there were about 360, 000 such households in Hong Kong.
The Scottish Greens said the number of homeless households in temporary accommodation such as bed and breakfast remains over 10, 000 compared to the 4, 000 recorded 10 years ago.
The report mentioned parenting classes, improving maternal nutrition and targeting children born in households with unhealthy habits, such as smoking, drug use and alcohol abuse.
They could do what the Democrats allege: Scale back tax preferences in such a way that middle-income households pay higher taxes than they do today while high-income people enjoy a tax cut.
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In other countries, such as Germany, many households carry standing legal insurance with a small monthly premium.
But while the agency tests whether the census has undercounted some groups, it does so only in households, not in group quarters such as prisons.
Ed McKelvey, an economist at Goldman Sachs, points out that the historically flat personal saving rate (once realised capital gains are included) means that households are, in essence, treating such gains as a perfect substitute for disposable income.
As Reynolds reports, most income received by the bottom fifth of households is from such transfer payments, nearly 80% in 2001, for example.
Such a rise, in turn, would raise domestic gold costs for Chinese households, now second only to Indian consumers as a global force in the gold market.
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Spending in rich countries, such as America and Britain, will flounder as long as households look to pay down the debts they acquired to buy expensive homes.
Such households tend to suffer among the lowest incomes and the highest poverty rates in the country.
However, when asked if they would back such a tax if it were fiscally neutral for households, 52% were in favour.
The purpose of these actions is to ease strains in financial markets and thereby mitigate the effects of such strains on the supply of credit to households and businesses and so help foster economic activity.
Such services meet needs of community in general and these do not take into account individual households (expenditures on defence, government, roads, scientific activity financed from the State budget and extra-budget funds, communal services and services of institutions serving agriculture).
The short-term impact is likely to be modest but if such measures ease households' worries about future pensions and health care, it could in the long term encourage them to save less and spend more.
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Never in history have so many middle class households been able to borrow so much against real estate at such low mortgage rates.
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He said that curbs in credits and deductions would exempt middle-income households who would continue to receive the benefits of tax breaks such as the deductions for mortgage interest and charitable contributions.
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Such measures are a far cry from 1997, when rather than urging households to spend, governments in Asia begged them to hand over their gold jewellery to be melted down to bolster official reserves.
The Commission, set up by the Treasury, recognises there would be great technical difficulties for big banks, such as Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays, in insulating their retail activities, that concentrate on providing services to households and smaller businesses, from investment banking.
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