Research reveals the importance of marriage to children
- Nearly one-third of all American children are born outside marriage which is one out-of-wedlock birth every 35 seconds.
- Of those born within marriage, a great many will experience their parents’ divorce before they reach age 18.
- More than half of the nation’s children will spend all or part of their child-hood in never-formed or broken families.
- A child raised by a never-married mother is seven times more likely to live in poverty than a child raised by his biological parents in an intact marriage.
- Overall, some 80 percent of long-term child poverty in the United States is found among children from broken or never-formed families.
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Date: 11/17/2006
Stats show that Successful Women with a College Education place a High Priority on Family
- According to the 2006 Current Population Survey, among 35- to 39-year-old women living in medium-size cities, who earn more than $75,000 a year and have a master's degree, 92% are married.
- According to the same data, among married women who earn more than $60,000 per year or have a graduate degree, 84% have kids under 18 at home by age 40 to 44.
- A woman of 40 to 44 who had 19 years of education--college plus graduate school--had a 66% chance of being married
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Date: 11/13/2006
Report Reveals Several Areas in the Lives of Youth that Effect their Worldviews
- Young people report that they can turn to their parents for advice (68 percent strongly agree)
- few are terribly worried about their relationships with their parents (18 percent very worried).
- The connection to family is stronger among youth with married parents (71 percent strongly agree that they can turn to for advice) than young people with unmarried parents (63 percent strongly agree they can turn to for advice
- After family, religion and sexual preference rank second and third as a way youth would like to describe themselves.
- 33 percent of young people say they are very worried about finding a job (60 percent very and somewhat worried)
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Date: 11/6/2006
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