Marriage Rates Decline While Births For Cohabitation Couples Increase According To A Recent Study
At Least One Child In Eight Is Born Into A Cohabitation Parent Family. Economic Factors Play Role In Non Marriage Births
A recent study by the Council on Contemporary Families discusses the increase in cohabitating couples and planned children. In births among cohabitating couples have increased 58% from 2006 to 2010. The study also suggests that half of these births were planned. All in all, the rise in cohabitation is well documented, with cohabitation playing an increasingly prominent role in the lives of American adults and children. At least one child in eight is born into a cohabiting parent family, and this rate has doubled over the course of a single decade.
The increase in cohabitating union births leads to the question of why couples are not getting married as frequently as they had in the past. Some insights may be gained from a recent NBC News article which interviews a 34-year-old mother, Anne-Marie Rinaldi, who has been cohabitating with her partner and fellow parent for the past decade. Ms. Rinaldi believes that having a child while cohabitating may become the “new normal.” Ms. Rinaldi believes … Read More... “Cohabitation Births On The Rise As Marriage Stats Fall”
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