Two generation single parent households, for example an unmarried, divorced or widowed mother and her children, or a widowed grandmother and her widowed daughter, are not common. Typically, with the low fertility rate in Japan, these households are relatively small with two, or only one, child living together with the parents. The two generation nuclear family consisting of the parents and their unmarried children has become the popular model of the modern family in Japan, as it was in America decades ago. Unlike in America, the incidence of unmarried couples living together is relatively small. As in America, there are increasing numbers of households of only a married couple, typically a newlywed couple without children who do not want to live with either set of parents, or married seniors whose children have all left, leaving them to live on their own in their retirement years. For example, there is a growing number of single occupant households, e.g., students living away from home or transferees who have moved out of the family home because of temporary job changes. The 127 million Japanese live in households as varied as can be found in America. " The Japanese family" is as diverse and elusive as "the American family," or "the Italian family," or "the Jewish family," or whatever stereotypical family we can imagine.
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