Because unwed childbearing is occurring most often among mothers with a high school diploma or less, children in single-parent homes are often at great disadvantage. They are also at risk for a host of other negative outcomes. Over 60 percent of births to mothers without a high school diploma and about 55 percent of births to mothers with only a high school education take place outside of marriage.Īs research shows and as Sawhill writes, children in single-parent families are far more likely to be poor. Yet, for the other two-thirds of America, the link between marriage and childbearing has weakened substantially. Ninety percent of children born to college-educated women are born to married mothers. ![]() However, for certain demographics, the unwed birth rate hasn’t changed much. Today, over 40 percent of births are to single women, compared to less than 10 percent in the 1960s. With the breakdown of marriage, unwed childbearing has jumped dramatically. Marriage has declined substantially in lower-income and working-class America. ![]() Marriage is no longer the foundation for sex and childbearing it once was. Sawhill goes on to explain the major shift in attitudes about sexual relationships since the cultural revolution of the 1960s. no amount of wishful thinking will bring it back,” says Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution in her new book, Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage.
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