45.4% of American Moms in Their Twenties Have Never Been Married
(CNSNews.com) - Forty-five percent of American mothers in their twenties have never been married, according to data that the Census Bureau released leading into the Mother’s Day weekend.
As of June 2014, according to the Census Bureau, there were 8,118,000 American women who were mothers and were from 20 to 29 years of age. Of these 8,118,000 American mothers in their twenties, 3,689,000 had never been married. That is 45.4 percent.
"In comparison with all mothers, young mothers are more likely to have had their first birth when they were neither married nor cohabiting,” states the Census. “Among young mothers who had their first birth between 2005 and June of 2012, 38 percent were neither married nor cohabiting at the time of the first birth.”
While the percentage of babies who are born to unmarried mothers is increasing, the average number of babies born per woman is declining.
“The average number of children ever born has dropped from more than three children per woman in 1976 to about two children per woman in 2012,” says the Census Bureau’s report on “Fertility of Women in the United States: 2012,” which was published in 2014.
Of the 4,125,353 who had a child in the 12 months prior to the 2012 Census Bureau survey, 31.3 percent had never been married and 7.0 percent were not married at the time of the survey. Only 61.8 percent of the new mothers was “currently married.”
Women living below the poverty line, according to the Census Bureau, had a higher birth rate in 2012 than women living above it.
“Twenty eight percent of women with a birth in the prior year were living in poverty in 2012, up from 25 percent in 2008,” said the Census Bureau report. “The fertility rate for women in poverty was 82 births per 1,000—higher than the fertility rate of those with incomes at 100 to 199 percent of poverty (63 births per 1,000) and almost twice as high as those with incomes at or above 200 percent of poverty (45 births per 1,000).”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/454-american-moms-their-twenties-have-never-been-married
My comments: This describes the sad moral state of America today. Young women are paying and will continue to pay a heavy price for this--and the children an even heavier price.
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