Costing under $100, the players are within the budget of most urban families.

Millions of urban families are buying homes for the first time.

In many cases these same people came from urban families that had not belonged to synagogues.

The survey also found that 330,000 urban families were homeless.

But since urban Chinese families now have only one child each, no expense is too great for one's "little emperor."

Freedom was more available to women in the royal and affluent urban families.

For many newly affluent urban families, a pet dog comes next on the list.

Educational opportunities beyond the primary level are scarce for most poor urban families.

And before welfare reform, at least, an additional child usually meant an increase in a poor urban family's benefits.

In fact, by the early 20th century, many urban families were educating their daughters.