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The New Unmarried Moms[UnMarried 20 Somethings Account For 41% of All Births!]
Wall St. J ^ | March 15, 2013 | KAY HYMOWITZ, W. BRADFORD WILCOX and KELLEEN KAYE

Posted on 03/16/2013 11:06:38 AM PDT by Steelfish

March 15, 2013 The New Unmarried Moms We've reduced teen pregnancy, but now childbearing outside wedlock is exploding among 20-somethings

KAY HYMOWITZ, W. BRADFORD WILCOX and KELLEEN KAYE

For many Americans, the phrase "young single mother" conjures up a picture of a teenage high-school dropout. But that image is out of date. Teen pregnancy rates have been declining for two decades now. Today's typical unmarried mother is a high-school graduate in her early 20s who may very well be living with her child's father.

Despite her apparent advantages, however, she faces many of the same problems that we used to associate with her younger sisters. If 30 is the new 20, today's unmarried 20-somethings are the new teen moms. And the tragic consequences are much the same: children raised in homes that often put them at an enormous disadvantage from the very start of life.

Thanks in part to TV shows like "Girls" and predecessors like "Friends," we tend to think of today's 20-something years as a kind of postadolescent transitional period: Young adults move in and out of jobs and careers, hang out at cafes and bars with friends, test drive romantic partners and just try to figure themselves out.

This pop-cultural depiction is accurate enough for the third or so of Americans who have a four-year college degree, but it's a long way from the reality of most 20-somethings. By the time they turn 30, about two-thirds of American women have had their first child, usually outside of marriage.

Indeed, 20-somethings are driving America's all-time high level of nonmarital childbearing, which is now at 41% of all births, according to vital-statistics data from the Centers for Disease Control Prevention. Sixty percent of those births are to women in their 20s, while teens account for only one-fifth of ......

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1 posted on 03/16/2013 11:06:38 AM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

I dated an unmarried 20 something years ago....still not sure what it was...


2 posted on 03/16/2013 11:09:00 AM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: Steelfish

No one is good enough for these women to marry, so they just borrow their sperm and then vote for the government to support them and their children. Women like these used to be called “sluts,” but now they’re just “Democrats.”


3 posted on 03/16/2013 11:11:32 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Steelfish

“....UnMarried 20 Somethings Account For 41% of All Births!”

It is hard to be born when you are 20....no childhood, etc....


4 posted on 03/16/2013 11:14:34 AM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: Steelfish
Well the next logical step will designate all kids wards of the state. Marriage and parental responsibilities are just so passe’
5 posted on 03/16/2013 11:15:15 AM PDT by Average Al
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To: illiac

Not if you’re a replicant.


6 posted on 03/16/2013 11:21:39 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: Steelfish

Uncle Sam is now most kids father.

The nuclear family is now Baby-Momma, Baby-Daddy, and Uncle Sam.


7 posted on 03/16/2013 11:25:00 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Steelfish

The New Unmarried Moms[UnMarried 20 Somethings Account For 41% of All Births!]

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And 90% of Welfare Claims.

State sponsored ghetto values has been successful and is now accepted as the new norm.


8 posted on 03/16/2013 11:26:52 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Steelfish

They are not single. Most will be married to government. The government will be their, and their kid’s, life-long companion that will provide, food, phone, shelter, healthcare, transportation, and enough welfare money to be able to get anything else they need. Too bad their companion’s job is to go out and steal from those who work for a living.


9 posted on 03/16/2013 11:31:23 AM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: Steelfish

So what is the result of the government paying for babies for single mothers but not if she is married but living with the father.


10 posted on 03/16/2013 11:32:13 AM PDT by ex-snook (God is Love)
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To: Steelfish

Lots of information in that article, but like most all on this subject it doesn’t tell us how many of the twenty-something, lower and middle class single moms are relying on government programs for part or all of their financial support.

With fewer decent jobs for the non-college grads, some combination of low paying work, children out-of-wedlock and government programs has become of a way a life for more and more Americans.


11 posted on 03/16/2013 11:32:17 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Steelfish

The Bastard Baby Boom continues.


12 posted on 03/16/2013 11:38:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Steelfish

'I want you!...

to be the baby-momma of my bastards!
13 posted on 03/16/2013 11:38:41 AM PDT by 45semi (A police state is always preceded by a nanny state...)
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To: Steelfish

America: The Nation of Bastards.


14 posted on 03/16/2013 11:44:16 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: SampleMan

A momma, baby and absent father can net a single parent female a buttload of government largess each year.

SNAP, WICs, TANF, Section 8 vouchers, multiple religious food pantry weekly raids, School Breakfast, School Lunch, you name it. Each year, they also can go to Walmart and have Jackson Hewitt fill out their 1040EZs for free and get an instant Refund Anticipation Loan (for a modest JH loan fee of course). Most walk out of WallyWorld with a $4000 PLUS refund check for taxes they NEVER paid!

No W-2? Don’t worry. Yesterday I spotted an Obama Voter with a sign on the back of the car that essentially said “I can print you up a fake W-2 for your EITC return”....


15 posted on 03/16/2013 11:47:00 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Steelfish

I will say that there are also tons of 20 something males who have “sired” a huge number of children with out the responsibilty to support them.

I am amazed these days when my daughter tells me “Oh he has X kids by different women...” She never even says the words “had been married...”

It’s an epidemic, frankly.


16 posted on 03/16/2013 12:19:24 PM PDT by llevrok (Keep your arms out. It makes it harder for them to throw a net over you.)
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To: Steelfish
What the article describes is actually the Compounding Disintegration of America.

It needs to be addressed; but will not be, so long as we allow compulsion driven neurotics to dictate policy.

William Flax

17 posted on 03/16/2013 12:25:49 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Steelfish

what is the demographic breakdown to the 41% stats


18 posted on 03/16/2013 12:38:42 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: txrefugee

And what are the men called?


19 posted on 03/16/2013 12:46:19 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: llevrok

The state is their family. Study early USSR feminist authors and you will understand. The USSR/Stalin was a pioneer for women’s “rights” if one understands their means to the end. A sick joke that millions of westerners have fallen prey to thanks to the Cultural Marxists in academia and corporations that enforce this “code” called PC.


20 posted on 03/16/2013 12:50:34 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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