“Unmarried Women Now Drive America’s Fertility Trends, And They’re Having Fewer Kids”
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1 min readFeb 25, 2016
“Because America increasingly depends on unmarried women — not married women — to drive its sagging fertility rate.
Twenty years ago the majority of U.S. women of childbearing age were married women. Today, the majority (58%) are unmarried, according to the CDC.
“It’s really what the unmarried segment is doing that is going to drive the overall rate,” says Sally Curtin, a CDC demographer and health statistician.”
Hmm
