The Council on Contemporary Families has released a report on "Unconventional Wisdom" that is taking some by surprise.

Founded to, " ... increase communication among family researchers and practitioners from many different fields, and to help the press and public get access to accurate information and best-practice findings about how today's families work," this year's tenth anniversary prompted a look a the decade-long evaluation of American families.

Although not addressed specifically toward international adoptive families, those of you in the US do qualify as "American families" and will be interested in what's being found out about you.

Here are some of their findings ...

Married parents are spending more time, not less, with their children than they did back in the good old days of 1965 ... mothers 21% more, while fathers have more than doubled their kid time.

School shootings may have parents feeling that educating kids is a dangerous business, but statistically the rate of school violence in 2004 dropped to less than half the 1994 rate.

Specific negative behaviors have fallen too, with a decline in binge drinking and cigarette smoking by almost half, and drug use among secondary students by a third.

Children are spending 10% less of their time in front of the TV than they did 20 years ago.

In one study, 67% of couples reported a, "big drop in relationship happiness and a big increase in hostility in the first 3 years of the baby's life."

Anorexia is the leading cause of death for women aged 15-24, with the mortality rate three times greater than in depression, schizophrenia or alcoholism.

Mothers today are only half as likely to quit work because of children as they were in 1984.

American teens have sex later and less often than their European counterparts.

Most boys raised with abuse and violence in the home do NOT grow up to be abusers.

Children in inter-racial families are not disadvantaged.

Eight out of ten people who grew up with committed working mothers think that was the "best option".

WIves are more sexually interested in men who help out around the house and kids who help Dad help are well adjusted.

80% of out-of-wedlock births at to parents in a romantic relationship who intend to parent together.

In 2006 101,952 children were apprehended by DHS, and 77,746 unaccompanied immigrant children -- 85% from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador --- were turned over to the Office of Refuge Resettlement.

Adoption needs to be more open.

The "boomerang" effect ... adult children moving back in with parents after leaving the nest for a while ... isn't happening in big numbers. Most young adults are more independent than before, rather than less.

Single-child families are the fastest growing family model, with single-child families outnumbering 2-child families in 2003.

There is more racial and ethnic diversity among children than adults.

There's more in the report, so take a gander if this has you hankering for facts and figures.