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For people who don’t have a college degree, having a child
in wedlock has become the exception, not the rule. According to a new analysis
presented at the Population Association of America, among parents aged 26 to 31
who didn’t graduate from college, 74 percent of the mothers and 70 percent of
the fathers had at least one child outside of marriage. Even among mothers who
had high school degrees or some college but no B.A., the majority of births
occur among moms who are either single or cohabiting.
For the study, researchers examined the National
Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which interviewed 9,000 young people born between
1981 and 1998 annually from 1997 to 2011. They found that the more education a
mother has, the less likely she is to have a baby out of wedlock:
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