Report: More children born to unmarried parents
On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Unmarried Couples on Tuesday, August 14, 2012. More and more unmarried couples are choosing to live together. With this trend, over the past several years, there has also been an increase in the number of children born to unmarried parents. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the overall percentage of children born to non-married couples, who were cohabitating, made up 23 percent of all live births in 2006-2010 in the U.S. In 2002, births to cohabitating women made up 14 percent of total births. Data also points to the