Sentences with phrase «of nonmarital births»

Random samples of both married and unmarried births were selected until preset quotas were reached based on the percentage of nonmarital births in the city that occurred at that hospital in 1996 or 1997.

The percentage of nonmarital births in the United States doubled between 1980 and 2011.

Between 1980 and 2012, the proportion of nonmarital births in the United States doubled.

This dramatic rise in the number of nonmarital births is of growing concern because of the precarious economic status of single parents (most often mothers) and their children.

Many of these nonmarital births are intentional, especially to long - term cohabitators.

Many are still in school (either high school or college); 21 percent of nonmarital births are to women under age 20.

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.

Relationship violence afflicts a considerable proportion of nonmarital births.

This dramatic rise in the number of nonmarital births is of growing concern because of the precarious economic status of single parents (most often mothers) and children.

Barber's studies, which often look at patterns in 40 countries or more, have shown the power of the sex ratio in predicting such things as the rate of nonmarital births, the practice of polygyny, and even the likelihood that men will grow facial hair.