Sentences with phrase «for nonmarital births»

Taken together, these policies have proven a marked success in boosting the rate of paternity establishment for nonmarital births.

Since the enactment of Title IV - D of the Social Security Act in 1975, a wave of federal legislation has swept through state child support agencies in an effort to simplify the paternity establishment process for nonmarital births.

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Younger teens in the 15 to 17 age group accounted for the steepest decline in nonmarital birth rates in 2013, falling 13 percent from 2012 and continuing a steady decline over the past several decades.

On average, single - parent families had only half the income of two - parent families, and this difference accounted for about half the gap between the two sets of children in high school dropout and nonmarital teen birth rates (in regression models that also controlled for race, sex, mother's and father's education, number of siblings, and residence).31

For example, adults who experience parental divorce as a child have lower socioeconomic attainment, an increased risk of having a nonmarital birth, weaker bonds with parents, lower psychological well - being, poorer marital quality, and an elevated risk of seeing their own marriage end in divorce.7 Overall, the evidence is consistent that parental divorce during childhood is linked with a wide range of problems in adulthood.

Studies based on father involvement for the Fragile Families sample have so far been able to examine only the first five years after the nonmarital births.

The concept showed promise as part of a job readiness and job search assistance program for seventeen - to twenty - four - year - old couples.60 Helping young people get off to a solid start in careers can be important for improving couple outcomes and avoiding nonmarital births.

Income instability and complexity after nonmarital birth: Outcomes for children in fragile families.

For women with a high - school diploma and maybe some college, the number is about 30 percent.42 And these women are having children outside of marriage in large numbers; indeed, about half of nonmarital births are to cohabiting couples.43 The point here is that most women without a college degree continue to experience «love and babies» in their early twenties, just without the benefit of marriage.