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Peer reviewedVentura, Stephanie – Children Today, 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…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, At Risk Persons, Birth Rate
