1.   Family formation and family building patterns are reflections of various socio-economic and cultural institutions, traditions and conditions of development.

2.   The tax system as a whole has thus become both increasingly regressive and increasingly unsupportive of family formation.

3.   There is also an increasing trend towards greater variety in family formations.

4.   Besides, housing starts have been outpacing family formation for several years.

5.   Bryson said it was too early to know how the children of the baby boomers will approach family formation.

6.   Family formation is surely a widely varied process, and a family held together by lashes may, in fact, have identified an effective means of cohesion.

7.   The consequences are devastating black commnity life and undermining job opportunities, economic accumulation and even family formation.

8.   The current, unprecedented disproportions are devastating black family formation and economic opportunity and creating an alienation that is more, not less, likely to produce crime.

9.   The result is a comparable increase in unemployables and devastated family formation.