Marriage Fact File - Center for Missional Research

“Gay-adopted” children may be placed in vulnerable family situations, suggests a new report released amid an on-going debate over whether homosexuals experience shortened life spans.
Psychologists and conservative scientists who analyzed the life spans and census registries from Denmark and Norway found that gay couples lived about 24 years less than heterosexual couples.
The findings suggest that the children of same-sex couples are placed in vulnerable situations as they are more likely to experience the death of one or both parents earlier on in life than they would with a married mother and father

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Date: 4/1/2007

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

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