Single parenthood - a topic I want to discuss at some point

Just read this in my e-mail newsfeed - putting up here as a prompt for me to think about. by Pallavi Gogoi, NPR's Chief Business Editor For a couple of years now, I have been unable to shake two key facts about the American population: One, that 40% of all births in America are to unmarried women. And two, that America has the world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households. I wanted to revisit the topic this year because the collective despair over declining births in the U.S. has led to ideas and proposals that promote marriage, including a bill to make marriage great again. As I started digging in, I discovered another fact that has become the fulcrum of my new journalistic examination. Births to unmarried women aged 30 and up have increased by 140% in the last two decades, a period when teen births have fallen off a cliff.