Unmarried Mothers: Survey Says...

...41% of births in the U.S. were to unmarried women in 2008.  (Compared to 28% in 1990.)

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Link to Pew Research June 30 "Daily Number".

Excerpt: Today's new mothers are increasingly older, better educated and more likely to be unmarried than were mothers of newborn children in the past.

Link to May 6 report, "The New Demography of American Motherhood".