Recent Trends and Variations in Nonmarital Childbearing.

Ventura, Stephanie

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ERIC Number: EJ555980

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Recent Trends and Variations in Nonmarital Childbearing.

Ventura, Stephanie

Children Today, v24 n2 p12 1997

Describes the increase in nonmarital childbearing in the United States in the past 50 years. Considers age differences in nonmarital childbearing and the disproportionate numbers of poorly educated unmarried mothers. Maintains that changes in sexual behavior of unmarried people and declines in marriages of unmarried pregnant women contributed to increased nonmarital birth rates. (KB)

Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, At Risk Persons, Birth Rate, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Demography, Educational Attainment, Marriage, Mothers, Sexuality, Sociocultural Patterns, Trend Analysis

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - General

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Language: English

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Note: Special Issue on: "Child Support Enforcement."