U.S. births broke record in 2007; 40% were out of wedlock

Houston Chronicle ^ | 3/18/09 | MIKE STOBBE

[truthandlife]

More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any year in the nation’s history, topping the peak during the baby boom 50 years earlier, federal researchers reported today.

There is both good and bad news from the more than 4.3 million births:

— The U.S. population is more than replacing itself, a healthy trend.

— However, the teen birth rate was up for the second year in a row.

The birth rate rose slightly for women of all ages, and births to unwed mothers reached an all-time high of about 40 percent, continuing a trend begun years ago. More than three-quarters of these women were 20 or older.

For a variety of reasons, it’s become more acceptable for women to have babies without a husband, said Duke University’s S. Philip Morgan, a leading fertility researcher.

[theymakemesick]

Statistically speaking, they most likely will.

[azishot]

BO’s the one that said that if they make a “mistake” he doesn’t want them punished with a baby....

[worst-case scenario]

...and 75% of the unwed births to women 20 years or older! I guess the “wait until marriage” approach doesn’t work as well with that group.

A lot of C-sections, too - as many as a third of all live births. Fear of lawsuits? Mother’s choice? No reasons given, unfortunately.

At least the number of abortions is dropping.

[exist]

Statistically speaking, they most likely will.

Plus they're being raised by their Ghetto grandmother while they're mother is out making speeches so that doesn't help.

[MrB]

Having children out of wedlock is ENCOURAGED by leftists and their policies.

The intent is the devaluing and destruction of the traditional family.

Oh, and those 40% born to “single mothers”?
They’ll be criminals. And they will commit crimes against YOU and your family.

[frogjerk]

I hope Obama’s daughters have children out of wedlock.

Not very charitable of you.

I hope the get married to real men and grow up conservative.

[frogjerk]

At least the number of abortions is dropping.

How so, contraception is more prevalent than ever?

[sr4402]

Having children out of wedlock is ENCOURAGED by leftists and their policies

Correct, before my wife and I got married, I was counseled by a leftist not to get married because of the marriage tax. Both of us were head of housholds, so getting married hit us heavily in the pocketbook. We believed God would honor the obedience of getting married and so right we were.

In September we were able to do the Dave Ramsey "Debt Free" scream with "Status Symbol of Choice" - the paid off home mortgage. The leftist had also opposed paying off the house and has said they were wrong on this (a rare thing), but still thinks living in sin would have been better.

In fact this leftist did the same with my daughter and her Husband. And I am glad to say they are happy not to taken that advice.

Don't Pay the "Stupid Tax", don't listen to the Liberals.

[vpintheak]

What a great freedom for aldults around the Country! Children be damned!

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Go to the CDC report (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_12.pdf)  and read it carefully, including the detailed tables. What you see is very interesting information - but curiously, when you get to the issue of births to unmarried women, you are presented with only one breakdown (see: Table 7. Number and percentage of births to unmarried women, by age: United States, final 2006 and preliminary 2007) - that of number of births by age bracket of the birth mother. You can tell from the data presented in the other tables that this could have been done by racial origin of the mother, yet such information appears nowhere in the report.

I used to think that Al Gore was the poster child for the politicization of science. Now I think it's President Obama and his minions who obviously made a very conscious decision to suppress the numbers on out of wedlock births by race of birth mother. For shame.

[Above My Pay Grade]

That’s not really a very nice thing to say. I hope Sasha and Malia grow, get married and have large, happy families...with CONSERVATIVE husbands.

Could you imagine what that would do to Michelle? :)

Wouldn’t it be great if they both turned out to be sort of like reverse Ron Reagans?

[CindyDawg]

It would be interesting to know how many of the 40% are on government assistance. Working husbands can result in losing benefits but I would guess that many have a significant other in their life that supplements their income. .

[RobbyS]

Disintegration of the family, as men are able to have “their pleasure,” with no further responsibility. Uncle Samuel now pays for all. Who needs a father. Except, who is going to teach young men to act in a civilized manner?

[worst-case scenario]

“Now I think it’s President Obama and his minions who obviously made a very conscious decision to suppress the numbers on out of wedlock births by race of birth mother.”

One very easy way to verify your suspicion is to compare this version of the report with others issued in the past decade. Have you done this, maybe googled it? It would be good to know.

Thanks for your link to the original report btw.

[donna]

At least the number of abortions is dropping.

That could be the result of sterility from sexually transmitted diseases and/or the spread of homosexuality.

[Antoninus]

For a variety of reasons, it’s become more acceptable for women to have babies without a husband, said Duke University’s S. Philip Morgan, a leading fertility researcher.

Reason #1: the ubiquity of political propaganda on this issue.

[Uncle Miltie]

Only 30% of out-of-wedlock sons end up in prison.

[Nosterrex]

The children born out of wedlock, which is a euphemism for what used to be called “born in sin”, will most likely live on welfare and produce more “bastards”. We we will have Obamakins wanting more an more socialism and less and less morality. What an irony this is. The guys wanting to get married and the “straights” not wanting to get married. The world does not know its right hand from its left hand.