CDC: Nearly 1 in 4 babies born to unwed cohabitors

[Rockntractor]

Health officials say nearly 1 in 4 babies are born to unmarried couples who are living together, a significant jump from a decade ago.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/0...#ixzz1rqusE7cu

[Starbuck]

About 23 percent of the reported births were to unmarried heterosexual couples who were living together when the child was born. That was up from 14 percent when a similar study was done in 2002.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/0...#ixzz1rrmIWIOn

There will come a day when marriage itself will become merely an old tradition practiced by some families. That is not a good thing.

[Articulate_Ape]

There will come a day when marriage itself will become merely an old tradition practiced by some families. That is not a good thing.

Someday? One out of every two marriages ends in divorce. What's the difference?

[Rockntractor]

Someday? One out of every two marriages ends in divorce. What's the difference?

Nowadays it's traditional to have a practice marriage.

[Starbuck]

Someday? One out of every two marriages ends in divorce. What's the difference?

I see a difference. There will come a day when people will no longer even try to form a nuclear family. That is a bad thing because living with someone long term teaches you to allow for others' mistakes.

[JB]

Someday? One out of every two marriages ends in divorce. What's the difference?

'1 Of 2 Couples Will Divorce' Is Wrong

August 12, 1993

I HEARD it a few days ago on a talk show: ''One out of every two marriages is ending in divorce.'' I read the same statement in an article by a family therapist. You can hear it used over and over, as I have for too many years to remember.

Early on, I learned that it simply was not true. In fact, it is a lie on unsuspecting people. These critics are taking a statistical tool and turning the results into a factual situation. The tool is to compare each year the number of marriages to the number of divorces, thus arriving at a method to determine if the marriage/divorce situation is improving or worsening.

I have no idea whether it's true or not. But for almost 20 years (maybe longer) we're still stuck on the 1 in 2 thing.

Empirically speaking...I put it about 1 in 10.

[FlaGator]

That statistic really puts a bad light on society and doesn't bode well for the traditional family unit. I firmly believe that with the demise of the family will come the demise of civil society.

[Retread]

You do know that the coming thing is that only the "gay" folks will be married? All of the non-mutants will just be shacking up.

[noonwitch]

Where I live, it's a much larger number than one in four.

[Odysseus]

Where I live, it's a much larger number than one in four.

Any areas where the child poverty stats are higher than the national average will have a higher percentage of out of wedlock births. It's not simply a corelation. Single or unmarried cohabitating parents (who tend to become single parents pretty quickly) have to perform the functions of a family with only one adult in the household. That invariably has a negative impact on income, as well as the absence of all of the other things that two-parent families take for granted (imagine trying to deal with medical appointments, school requirements and a host of other issues while also holding down a full time job).

And, the rest of the article gives the correct stats on divorce:

Recent polls have indicated that in any given year, only about 2 percent of existing marriages will end in divorce, and that only about one in eight of all marriages will end in divorce. This is a far different picture than ''one in every two marriages will end in divorce.''