So Much for the Marriage Turnaround/Maggie Gallagher

CDC's preliminary data on 2004 birth. Almost 36 percent of U.S. births are now out of wedlock, a jump of almost one percentage point from 2003.

The good news is the decline in teen births continues. The bad news is this appears to be a decline in married teen births.

Total fertility rate increased slightly. BTW, although hispanics have significantly more children than blacks or whites, non-Hispanic white women in this country have 1.85 children, higher than any European nation (whose total fertility includes Muslim ethnic minorities). (When will the CDC routinely report marital fertility measures??)

Bad news is the Hispanic out of wedlock birth rate continue to rise. Its now 45 percent.

More data here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/prelim_births/prelim_births04.
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