1940 - 2006: % of U.S. Births to Unwed Mothers

[Will]

I LOVE it when I get paid to scratch my data & statistical research itch.





Put this together today at work, thought I'd share. A truly depressing trend.





Thoughts? Comments? Anyone notice anything interesting concerning when the trend really takes off, and when the trend was briefly stunted in the recent past?

[themonk]

the last time I checked one didn't have to be married to bare a child.

[Datawiz]

Plot the percentage of marriages over the same period of time.

[BuckyThreadkiller]

The frightening thing is the 20-40 year behind it in the number of real bastards in the world.

[Kerrmudgeon]

Do they have those stats by race?

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by themonk

the last time I checked one didn't have to be married to bare a child.

NOW take a rough comparison to the rise of the welfare state and the crying over single mothers......child support and total irresponsibility.....

AFDC, HOUSING, FOOD STAMPS, the .GOV ENABLING factor for stupid behavior.....

which leads to the drug problem.....

they dynamic is VERY clear in MY mind....

[Will]

Originally Posted by themonk

the last time I checked one didn't have to be married to bare a child.

Heathen spotted

[Bill]

Originally Posted by themonk

the last time I checked one didn't have to be married to bare a child.

Heck, no. You just have to take the kid's clothes off.

[Kerrmudgeon]

Tubal ligation to qualify for welfare assistance.

[Will]

Originally Posted by Kerrmudgeon

Do they have those stats by race?

"In 2005, 36.9% of all U.S. births were to unmarried women. In 2005, 69.9% of births to black women were nonmarital births. The percentage of nonmarital births for American Indians or Alaska Natives was 63.5%. The nonmarital birth percentage was 48.0% for Hispanic women, 25.3% for non-Hispanic white women, and 16.2% for Asian or Pacific Islander women."

[Kerrmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Will

"In 2005, 36.9% of all U.S. births were to unmarried women. In 2005, 69.9% of births to black women were nonmarital births. The percentage of nonmarital births for American Indians or Alaska Natives was 63.5%. The nonmarital birth percentage was 48.0% for Hispanic women, 25.3% for non-Hispanic white women, and 16.2% for Asian or Pacific Islander women."

Nuff Said!

And in about 18 years, they will all have a vote.....

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by Kerrmudgeon

Nuff Said!

And in about 18 years, they will all have a vote.....

Which is why MY kids have NO chance....

unless they really DO inherit millions from their mother's side....

but I not confident on that....

but at least they smart enough to not have kids of their own both later 20s....

[Kerrmudgeon]

Originally Posted by mrvette

Which is why MY kids have NO chance....

unless they really DO inherit millions from their mother's side....

but I not confident on that....

but at least they smart enough to not have kids of their own both later 20s....

BUT, your kids are precisely the ones that SHOULD be having kids!.....you know intelligent ones! Encourage them grandad!

[Scissors]

Meanwhile (page 2):
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr49/nvsr49_10.pdf

The birth rate to teenagers has been dropping.

It shot up right after WWII (so, most likely, the GIs came back and immediately began nailing teenage girls).

[VITE1]

Originally Posted by Scissors

Meanwhile (page 2):
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr49/nvsr49_10.pdf

The birth rate to teenagers has been dropping.

It shot up right after WWII (so, most likely, the GIs came back and immediately began nailing teenage girls).

Your data is for Teen age birth rates. What was the out of wedlock birth rate?

[Scissors]

Originally Posted by VITE1

Your data is for Teen age birth rates. What was the out of wedlock birth rate?

*sigh*

Try again:

Originally Posted by Scissors

Meanwhile (page 2):
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr49/nvsr49_10.pdf

The birth rate to teenagers has been dropping.

It shot up right after WWII (so, most likely, the GIs came back and immediately began nailing teenage girls).

[PLRX]

was this guy's mom married to his father???

[RetiredSFC 97]

Originally Posted by PLRX

was this guy's mom married to his father???

Who knows, do you have his real BC? We could take a looksee.

[VITE1]

Originally Posted by Scissors

*sigh*

Try again:

I saw that.

Figure one shows Unwed vs Birth rate as a whole. Amazingly enough the unwed rate JUMPS as wellfare is intorduced. 1950-2000

Figure two shows number of births and birth rates. 1940 to 2000.

The discussion here is UNWED birth rate.

Most teenage births are to unmarried women
The overall teenage birth rate has fallen steadily since 1991, and the birth rate for unmarried teenagers has declined since 1994 (table 1). Nevertheless, the proportion of births to teenagers that are to unmarried teenagers has continued to increase, essentially without interruption, rising from 13.9 percent in 1957 to 78.7 percent in 1999 and 2000 (figure 1). These proportions have risen for both younger and older teenagers (12). The steady upward climb in the percent unmarried reflects the fact that very few teenagers are marrying and the birth rate for married teenagers has dropped (table 1). In fact, major changes in marriage and in marital and nonmarital childbearing occurred in the last half of the twentieth century and these changes are not unique to teenagers. Thus, while the proportion of teenage births that are to unmarried women continues to rise, teenagers do not account for the majority of all births to unmarried women (table B). In 2000, 72 percent were to women aged 20 years and over compared with about half in the mid-1970s (1,12).

Why are you talking teenage birth rate when the OP is about unwed mothers?

[Entropy]

I'd be interested in seeing that data compared to above/below poverty line.