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> Last I checked, rates of out of wedlock pregnancy are down. What on earth? When did you last check that? Percent of births to unmarried women has gone from 5
by simonsarris 4y ago
> Last I checked, rates of out of wedlock pregnancy are down.
What on earth? When did you last check that? Percent of births to unmarried women has gone from 5% in the early 1900s to 15% by 1980 and then ballooned to 40% this decade
https://www.statista.com/statistics/276025/us-percentage-of-births-to-unmarried-women/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/276025/us-percentage-of-...
- Retric 4y ago> Percent of births to unmarried women Again, that doesn’t mean the rate of unmarried women having children has increased because the rate of married women having children has declined. Similarly the percentage of married women has fallen dramatically. And of course the US in 1900 is hardly the beginning of time.