Alan C. Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 36% of Generation Starting to Turn 21 This Year Born to Unmarried Mothers If you count a generation as spanning 20 years, then approximately 36 percent of the American generation born from 1993 through 2012 — which has begun turning 21 this year and will continue turning 21 through 2033—were born to unmarried mothers.80,838,742 babies were born in the United States from 1993 through 2012, according to the birth reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 29,007,173 of those babies were born to unmarried mothers.That does not count the 40.6 percent of babies (1,605,643 out of 3,957,577) born in 2013 who were also born to unmarried mothers.In fact, according to the CDC, at least 40 percent of the babies born in each of the last six years — 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 — were born to unmarried mothers.Back in 1940, only 3.8 percent of American babies were born to unmarried mothers. By 1960, it was still only 5.3 percent.The curve that tracks the increasing percentage of babies born to unmarried mothers starts to bend upward in the mid-1960s. By 1965, it was 7.7 percent. By 1969, it was 10 percent. By 1975, it was 14.3 percent.It broke 20 percent in 1983; 30 percent in 1992; and 40 percent in 2008. That year it was 40.6 percent. In 2009, it was 41.0 percent. In 2010, it was 40.8 percent. In 2011, it was 40.7 percent. In 2012, it was 40.7 percent. And in 2013, it was 40.6 percent.It is a statistical fact that the institution of the family has been collapsing in America over the past 45 years. Such a terrible tragedy. What happened in the 1960s, I wonder?
madog marcek Posted September 3, 2014 Posted September 3, 2014 while i was not born to single mother, the result of my child hood was about the same. there were years of fighting, durring which my father rarly came home from work. my mother would mock me for wanting to spend time with my father. when i was seven my parents devorced. in hind sight my father wanted to keep me out of the drama of the devorce, but in my mind i thought he was hiding somthing from me. at my mothers prompting i told the court infront of him that i no longer wanted him in my life. i have seen him several times after that but talking to him is more like chit chat with a stranger on a bus than a conversation between father and son. i have struggled for a long time now to learn the male role in a family and to learn the skills a father should teach a son. who knows how many other children of 1993 had a father on paper but not in presence. all i can think to do is to learn from my family and their flaws and make sure that my children have the childhood that was stolen from me.
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