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Originally Posted by Danzig

Good news..

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor...ou_d_know.html

But....perception is still reality for some:

But just because the unwed birth rate is going down doesn't mean that the panic over single motherhood is likely to recede. The majority of Americans believe crime is getting worse, but crime is actually way down since the ’90s. Most Americans also believe teen pregnancy is on the rise, when in fact it's in a sharp decline. So we'll probably continue to hear about how single mothers are responsible for every social ill imaginable.

The overall, unwed birth rate (number of births) is down because the overall birth rate is down. This decrease is still reason to celebrate as statistically children born to unwed mothers bear virtually every disadvantage imaginable to their counterparts born into a marriage.

The percentage of births to unwed mothers remains steady at roughly 4 in 10. If only we could get that down to 1980 rates (20%) only 2 in 10 or less would be born into a disadvantageous life/future.

The percentage of births to unmarried women declined slightly in 2013 to 40.6%, after holding steady from 2011 to 2012 at 40.7%; the percentage peaked in 2009 at 41.0%.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db162.htm

So while overall births have declined the percentage of those births born to unwed mothers have decreased 9/10 of 1% or to be specific 0.0097561.

To give some perspective, that percentage transposed into a salary raise for someone making $15 bucks an hour would come to 14 and a half cents an hour or $5.85 a week. If that's good news, so be it.