Why Are Marriages Plunging & Unwed Births Soaring?
By Mike McManus
April 10, 2014
The American family is falling apart. Consider two grim trends.
The U.S. marriage rate has plunged 57% since 1970, according to “The State of Our Unions” for 2012. Two-thirds of Americans over age 15 used to be married. Now it is only 48%.
The unwed birth rate was only 5% in 1960 and 10.7% in 1970. However, that figure has soared to 40.8% in 2010. In fact, 53% of all births to women under age 30 were to unmarried women.
What’s gone wrong? Uncle Sugar, as Mike Huckabee puts it, is the culprit.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Mike McManus
April 10, 2014
The American family is falling apart. Consider two grim trends.
The U.S. marriage rate has plunged 57% since 1970, according to “The State of Our Unions” for 2012. Two-thirds of Americans over age 15 used to be married. Now it is only 48%.
The unwed birth rate was only 5% in 1960 and 10.7% in 1970. However, that figure has soared to 40.8% in 2010. In fact, 53% of all births to women under age 30 were to unmarried women.
What’s gone wrong? Uncle Sugar, as Mike Huckabee puts it, is the culprit.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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