Demographic indicators show that Americans in the postwar period were moreeager than ever to establish families. They quickly brought down the age at marriagefor both men and women and brought the birth rate to a twentieth century height　　  1．_______after more than a hundred years of a steady decline, producing the” baby boom.”　　2．_______These young adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively largefamilies that went for more than two decades and caused a major but temporary　　    3．_______reversal of longterm demographic patterns. From the 1940s through the early1960s, Americans married at a high rate and at a younger age than their　　　　　    4．_______Europe counterparts.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　 　　　 5．_______　　Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women who formed　　 　　　 6．_______families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the divorce rate after a　　　   7．_______postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to a greater extent than did that of　 8．_______couples who married in earlier as well as later decades. Since the United States　　 9．_______maintained its dubious distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world,the temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in Europe.　　　  10．_______Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and homemaker was notabandoned.