The Luxury of Waiting for Marriage to Have Kids
Women without college degrees who have children <em>in</em> wedlock are now the exception, not the rule, a new analysis shows.
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes ... actually reverse that. First comes the baby, then, we’ll see.
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 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.
