• Teen sexual abstinence was associated with:
  • A 40 percent lower rate of school expulsion
  • A 50 percent lower rate of dropping out of high school
  • A 70 percent increase in the probability a youth was currently attending or had graduated from college
  • A 66 percent increase in college graduation.

• In 2005, the percentage of all children under age 18 who were living with two married parents was at 67 percent.
• In 2005, 6 percent of all children lived in the home of their grandparents.
• In 2005, 35 percent of black children were living with two parents
• In 2005, 10 percent of all black children did not live with either parent

A new analysis looking at links between marriage, fertility and other socioeconomic characteristics was released today by the U.S. Census Bureau, providing the first-ever state-by-state analysis of median age at first marriage. The analysis of the multi-year marriage and fertility data from the American Community Survey (ACS) also shows how socioeconomic characteristics such as mother’s income, age, work status and language spoken at home are correlated with birth rates.