With out-of-wedlock births topping 50 percent, scholars eye societal impact (The Pantagraph)

12 October 2008, 11:00 am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Think of it as a new “normal” in American family life. After creeping slowly and steadily upward most of the last 50 years, the number of babies born to young unmarried women quietly crossed a troubling threshold in 2006. For the first time in a half-century of record-keeping, a majority of babies born to women younger than 30 were out of wedlock.... read more

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