Welcome to the Connections podcast. Starting with an intense observation of my mother and father's

families of origin, followed by a deep decade of babysitting. My understanding of how families

used their homes was broadened in my 20s through home visits for my at-risk preschool students

and culminated in my seven years as an in-home professional organizer in my 40s.

Taken together, I have observed, supported, and organized hundreds of homes and families,

and the Connections Podcast couple this deep deep unique understanding of American households with

other experts, bestselling authors, industry experts, and the Organized 365 research team.

If you have a connection you would like us to explore, please email customer service

at Organize365.com. And now, on to the show.

Welcome back to another Connections podcast. I'm joined today by Anna Hall, the lead researcher

and head of our organization unit here at Organize 365. Hi, Anna. Hi, Lisa. I'm excited to be

back. Well, we are going to have a great conversation

today. I saw a infographic a couple of months ago, and I cannot get it out of my mind. And that's

what we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about how the composition of American

households, we're guessing this infographic is for 18 to 55 year olds,

although we can't exactly see what the date is, but we'll get into that in a minute.

But before we get into that, even if we don't have children, we all were children.

You may not have kids, but everybody has parents.

You may not have them living.

You may not have grown up with them, but we all came from humans somehow.

So when we think about past generations, I've talked about my family a lot. I'm going to go over

a little bit about the composition of my family, and then Anna will go over the composition of her family,

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