What if…? What if some of the trends touted in the media came true during the next few decades? Here's American Demographics' contribution to millennial hype

American Demographics, Dec, 1997 by Diane Crispell, Shannon Dortch, Brad Edmondson, Nancy Ten Kate, Matthew Klein, Matthew Cravatta

Taking It Further mothers stopped working: statistics on number and income of married working mothers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; "Effects of Intermittent Labor Force Attachment on Women's Earnings," Family Economics and Nutrition Review, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1996; "The Economic Costs and Rewards of Two-Earner, Two-Parent Families," by Sandra L.

Hanson and Theodora Ooms, Journal of Marriage and the Family, August 1991. men didn't go to college: For more information on college continuation and completion, see the September 1995 and February 1996 Postsecondary Education Opportunity, P.O. Box 127, Iowa City, IA 52244; telephone (319) 351-4913. The National Center for Education Statistics annually publishes projections of college enrollment, degrees awarded, and other measures. Its most recent data are published in Projections of Education Statistics to 2007, available from the Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402-9328; telephone (212) 512-1800. For more on the declining number of men on college campuses, see "Hey Guys: Hit the Books" in the September 1997 American Demographics. boomers couldn't retire: The Merrill Lynch Baby Boom Retirement Index is conducted annually by Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc.; telephone (212) 449-7293. Data on workplace fatalities are available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. For information, call (202) 606) 6175, e-mail CFOOSTAFF@bls.gov, or see Internet site http://www.stats.bls.gov/oshfat1.htm. America were really aging: Ken Dychtwald in "21st Century Online Magazine," Internet address http://www.21net.com/online/agewave.htm; "Population Projections of the United States..." Current Population Reports No. P25-1130; Housing Vacancy Survey, second quarter 1997, Census Bureau; Office of Management and Budget, Historical Tables; Congressional Quarterly, Washington, DC; The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration, National Research Council (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1997). whites became a minority: U.S. Census Bureau middle-series projections; Demographic Statistics Branch, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; Roper Starch Worldwide, New York, NY; National Science Foundation, Washington, DC; National Review, June 16, 1997. juvenile crime explodes: "Murder by Teens Has Soared," Newsday, February 17, 1995; "Grim Forecast Is Offered on Rising Juvenile Crime," The New York Times, September 8, 1995; "Search for Answers to Juvenile Crime," The Christian Science Monitor, June 17, 1996; "Wayward Youth, Super Predator," Corrections Today, June 1997; "The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1996; Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC. everyone was wired: 1997 American Internet User Survey, FIND/SVP, New York, NY; "The Future of the Internet: The Internet PC," by Bill Gates, Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com; Roper Starch Worldwide, New York, NY. one car per adult: Statistical Abstract of the United States 1996; Commuting in America II, by Alan Pisarski, August 1997, Eno Foundation for Transportation, Inc., Westport, CT; Surface Transportation Policy Project, Environmental Working Group, USA Today, September 16, 1997; "Taming the Beast: a survey on living with the car," The Economist, June 22, 1996; "The Car Trap," World Press Review, December 1996; "2020 Vision," Chemistry & Industry magazine. oceans rose three feet: "Experts on Climate Change Ponder: How Urgent Is It?" The New York Times, September 9, 1997; journalist Ross Gelbspan in The American Prospect, March 1997; "The Rising Risk of Rising Tides," Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, Summer 1996; "The Probability of Sea Level Rise," by James Titus et al., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and Second Assessment Report of the IPCC, both available at Internet address http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming, or via fax request to EPA Publication Office, (513) 489-8695. everyone stopped smoking: Centers for Disease Control's Office on Smoking and Health; Reuters Health Information Services, New England Journal of Medicine; Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1996; "The Psychology of Everyday Living" by Ernest Dichter; Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, Fall 1995; Berkeley Economic Research Associates; "The Politics of Our National Addiction" by Gwenda Blair.