How we ended up with 40 percent of children born out of wedlock
In 1960, nonmarital births were quite rare.
Today in the United States, about two-fifths of all births are to unmarried women. This resulted from a complicated combination of moral and behavioral changes.
It’s a frustratingly complex picture; and half a century after the Sexual Revolution, with no reversal in sight, these may primarily be academic questions anyway.
But if we’re not happy where we are in this regard—and we shouldn’t be, given the harms children have suffered from family breakdown—it can’t hurt to know how we got here.
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