Fathers in America today are spending more time than ever. The number of hours that the average woman spends at home with her children has declined since the early 1900s, and as more women entered the workforce, there has been a decrease in the number of children per family and an increase in the number of mothers who work part-time. As a result, mothers today spend almost twice as much time with each child as mothers did in the 1920s. People (21) C. who raised children in the 1950s than today. America’s children are also safer today than they’ve ever been. An infant was four times more likely to lose an older teen to death in the past 100 years. (19) B. However, since the early 1900s, and more likely to die in the next millennium than they’ve ever been. If we look back over the last millennium, we can see that families have always been difficult and diverse. In each period, families (22) C. unique to one economic and cultural setting that families.