Report: Babies Increasingly Born to Unwed Mothers

[MountainLaurel]

As fundie heads explode across the nation . . .

The number of babies being born out of wedlock has increased sharply in the United States, driven primarily by significant jumps in women in their 20s and 30s having children without getting married, according to a federal report released today.
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More than 1.7 million babies were born to unmarried women in 2007, a 26 percent rise from 2002 and more than double the number in 1980, according to the report from the National Center for Health Statistics. The increase reflected a 21 percent jump in the rates of unmarried women giving birth, which rose from 43.7 per 1,000 women in 2002 to 52.9 per 1,000 women.

That means that unmarried women accounted for 39.7 percent of all U.S. births in 2007 -- nearly four out of every 10 newborns -- up from 34 percent in 2002 and more than double the percentage in 1980.

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Instead, much of the increase is due to significant increases in births among unmarried women in their 20s and 30s. Between 2002 and 2006, the rate at which unmarried women were having babies increased by 13 percent among women ages 20 to 24, by 21 percent for those ages 25 to 29, by 34 percent for women 30 to 34 and by 29 percent for those 35 to 39, the report found.

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Previous research indicates about 40 percent of births to unmarried women occur in households where couples are cohabitating, she said.

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[Chemical Bill]

1. Those babies should have chosen married couples.

Fundies will teach them.

Bill

[Skidmore]

2. I'd love to see a study that reports the number of self-identified fundamentalists

who are serial monogamists.

[ejpoeta]

3. my daughter emily was born to an unwed mother. and an unwed father, let's not forget!

luckily my daughter ashley wasn't, so... she did get to go down the aisle with me in my belly... :) that was a close one. i would like to see how differently the two turn out, given emily was raised in a home with unmarried parents for at least five years!

[Mass]

4. And? Most other countries have the same phenomena and their kids are just as well as in this country

As long as these kids have two loving parents (or at least one), who cares?