Changes at Home
 Family dynamics are always changing and evolving. Single-parent households are becoming more common. Approximately 1.5 million children were born to unmarried women in 2004, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Of these births, it is estimated that 49 percent of unmarried mothers in large urban areas were cohabitating at the time of the birth of a child.
The number of unmarried women having children is increasing because more people are choosing to live together without getting married. It could be because there is less social pressure on the couple to marry when an unexpected pregnancy occurs.
Some might assume that the majority of births to unmarried mothers are to teen moms. However, according to an article published in the USA Today on October 30, 2005, teenage pregnancy has declined in recent years, while the number of pregnancies to women over 20 years of age increased. Teenagers accounted for 50 percent of unwed births in 1970, but in 2004 they only made up 24 percent of unwed births.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2002, unmarried women accounted for 34 percent of all births. The largest group of women to give birth while unmarried is the 20-somethings age group. Of women who gave birth between the ages of 20 and 24, half were married at the time of giving birth.
Pg. 1 >> Establishing Paternity
Pg. 2 >> Changes at Home
Pg. 3 >> Legal Banter
Pg. 4 >> Necessary Testing
Pg. 5 >> Why Establish Paternity?
Pg. 6 >> Check the Policy in Your State
Pg. 7 >> Avoid the Rush
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