Revealing Statistics: America in Decline
Subtitle: Present Costs of the War against God
This page is only one of 18 sections of an extensive collection of statistics testifying to the above. See and read the main page here with the Table of Contents, by God's grace.
Sec. 5
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LIVING IN SIN, MARRIAGE versus DIVORCE, and CHILDREN |
In times past and up to the present, almost all persons who were married did so by age 45. In every generation for which records exist, going back to the mid-1800s, more than 90% 1960, 94 percent of women then alive had been married at least once by age 45.9The State of our unions 2004; http://marriage.rutgers.edu/Publications/SOOU/TEXTSOOU2004.htm
Since 1960, there has been an 850 percent increase in the number of cohabiting couples who live with children.^9
Only 51% of people between the ages 18-34 agree with the statement “those who want children should get married.” (2002).^9
While in 1960 only nine percent of all children lived in single-parent families, a figure that had changed little over the course of the 20th century, by 2003 the percentage had jumped to 27 percent.^9
64% of boys and 55% of girls "agreed" or "mostly agreed" with the [sinful] statement that "it is usually a good idea for a couple to live together before getting married in order to find out whether they really get along."^9
From 1960 to 1990(?), the percentage of babies born to unwed mothers has increased more than sixfold.^9
Between 1960 AND 2006, the number of unmarried couples [otherwise known as fornicators, living in sin] in America (couples who are sexual partners, not married to each other, and sharing a household), increased by over 1200 percent. National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, “The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America,” 2007 http://www.virginia.edu/marriageproject/pdfs/SOOU2007.pdf
The number of unmarried couples living together grew 72 percent between 1990 and 2000, reflecting a significant change in lifestyle. US Census Bureau.Wetzstein, Cheryl, “Unmarried-couple households increase,” The Washington Times, March 13, 2003), www.washtimes.com/national/20030313-37131544.htm). http://www.josh.org/notes/file/Internet9-Cohabiting.pdf
As of the year 2000, it was estimated that about a quarter of unmarried women age 25 to 39 were living [in sin] with a partner, while an additional quarter have lived with a partner at some time in the past. Over 50% all first marriages are now preceded by living together, compared to virtually none 50 years ago. Larry Bumpass and Hsien-Hen Lu, "Trends in Cohabitation and Implications for Children's Family Contexts in the U. S.," Population Studies 54 (2000): 29-41 es after 1980," Demographic Research 8-8 (2003): 245-259
[2009] While nearly 66% of children in the United States are born to mothers under 30, 53% of births to women under 30 occur outside marriage, and only 59 percent of all American women are married when they have children. (Child Trends, a Washington research group that analyzed government data, reported by http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/us/for-women-under-30-most-births-occur-outside-marriage.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print)
As for 2007, over 40 percent of households of cohabiting couple now contain children. National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, “The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America,” 2007 http://www.virginia.edu/marriageproject/pdfs/SOOU2007.pdf
A record four-in-ten births (41%) were to unmarried women in 2008. Pew Research Center, May 6, 2010, http://pewsocialtrends.org/assets/pdf/754-new-demography-of-motherhood.pdf
70% percent of the children in unmarried-couple households are the children of only one partner. Larry Bumpass, J. A. Sweet and A. Cherlin, “The Role of Cohabitation in Declining Rates of Marriage,” Demography 53 (1991):913-27.^9
An estimated 40% of all children today are expected to spend some time in a cohabiting household during their growing up years. Larry Bumpass and Hsien-Hen Lu, “Trends in Cohabitation and Implications for Children’s Family Contexts in the U.S.,” Population Studies 54 (2000) 29-41
Between 1960 and 1990, there was a 41% decline in marriage. Larry L. Bumpass, "What's Happening to the Family? Interactions Between Demographic and Institutional Change," presidential address to the Population Association of America, Demography, Vol. 27, No. 4 (November 1990), pp. 483-498, and Janice S. Crouse, "Strengthening American Families: What Works and What Doesn't Work," World Congress of Families II, Geneva, November 1999, Figure 9; http://www.josh.org/notes/file/Internet8-Divorce.pdf.
68% of American children live with two parents. This is down from 77% in 1980. 24% of children live with only their mother, 4% live with only their father, and 4% live with neither of their parents. Statistics Concerning the State of America http://freedomministries.com/outlinestats.html
In Britain, the number of births to single mothers and unmarried cohabiting couples is set to exceed 50% across the country in the next five years. April, 2010, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
In 1960 72% of adults were married (and 85% were ever married), compared to only 52% in 2008 (and 73% had ever married). Part of the difference is the higher divorce rate in modern times. 2010, Pew Research Center; http://theosophical.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/americans%E2%80%99-changing-views-of-marriage-and-family/#more-2540
Even with the decline in marriage, Americans have one of the highest marriage rates of developed nations. In 2006 the U.S. experienced 7.4 marriages p/1000 people. Compare this to France and Italy with only 4.2 marriages p/1000 people in 2005.
39% of Americans think marriage is becoming obsolete, up from 28% in 1978. ^
67% of Republicans are married, and 57% are married with children. Compare this to 45%/38% for Democrats. Democrats are also almost twice as likely to cohabit [live in sin] (9% vs. 4%). ^
44% of Americans admit that they have cohabited at some point in their lives (men = 46%; women = 41%). Those aged 30-49 were most likely to have cohabited (57%). 44% of 18-29 year olds have as well, followed by 42% of 50-64 year olds, and 18% of 65+. By race, blacks are most likely to have cohabited (47%), followed by white (44%) and Hispanic (39% – which includes any non-white and non-black person). ^
63% of cohabiters had children before moving in together, and 25% of married couples had children before getting married.
Only 34% of adults age 18-29 think cohabiting parents is bad for society, compared to 58% of the oldest adults. ^
68% of adults believed premarital sex was wrong in 1968, compared to only 32% who said the same in 2009. ^
Children born out of wedlock has increased from 5% in 1960 to 28% in 1990 to 41% in 2008. 72% of black women giving birth were unmarried in 2008, compared to 53% of Hispanics and 29% of whites. ^
5% of divorced parents have sole-custody of the children (the number of women who have sole custody is double that of men), 35% share custody, and 18% have no custody at all. ^
Women constitute 77% of the total number of unmarried parents living with children. ^
52% of black children, 27% of Hispanic children, and 18% of white children are being raised in single-parent homes. 19% of black adults are living in households with a child but no spouse. ^
83% of unmarried adults who want to get married also want to have kids. 31% who do not want to get married want to have kids anyway (30% do not want kids and 38% aren’t sure). ^
In 1980 only 10% of women age 40-44 were childless. By 2008 that number increased to 18% (white women most likely to be childless). ^
204,000 children lived with same-sex couples in 2008. ^
Only 28% of adults age 18-29 think same-sex couples raising children is bad for society, compared to 58% of the oldest adults.
By gender, 50% of men and 35% of women agree that this is bad for society. Those with a college degree are less likely to think it is bad for society (36%) than those without college degrees (44-46%). ^
Only 7% of couples who attend church services once a month will divorce within the first 5 years of marriage. The rate for those who go to church once a year or less is 2 ½ times higher. U.S. government's National Survey of Family Growth, Atheists won't save Europe by don feder http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27937
The overwhelming majority of married men (94 percent) say that they are happier being married than being single. 9The State of our unions 2004; http://marriage.rutgers.edu/Publications/SOOU/TEXTSOOU2004.htm
73% percent say that their sexual life is better since getting married, and 68% say that marriage has helped them become more financially stable.^ 9
A 1992 study of retirement data concluded that "individuals who are not continuously married have significantly lower wealth than those who remain married throughout their lives." Compared to those continuously married, those who never married have a reduction in wealth of 75% and those who divorced and didn't remarry have a reduction of 73%. Janet Wilmoth and Gregor Koso, "Does Marital History Matter? Marital Status and Wealth Outcomes Among Preretirement Adults," Journal of Marriage and the Family 64 (2002):254-68. National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, “The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America,” 2007 http://www.virginia.edu/marriageproject/pdfs/SOOU2007.pdf
About 35 percent of marriages end in divorce [2008]. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/divorce.htm
85% of one-parent families in 1999 were mother-child families.10T.D. Eddins; http://www.geocities.com/tdeddins/CHAPTER01.htm
Nearly 60 percent of all children born in 1986 may be expected to spend almost a year, or longer, in a one-parent family before reaching age 18.^ 10
Until the early 1980s, most of employed women (outside the home) were those with no children under age 18. Today, married women whose youngest child is between 6 and 17 years of age constitute the largest sector of female employment. 64% are also employed whose youngest child is under age 6.^ 10
Estimates are that approx. 66% of the people who divorce will eventually remarry.^ 10
The divorce of parents also reduces the likelihood that a child will attain a college education. The college attendance rate is about 60 percent lower among children of divorced parents compared with children of intact families. Janet B. Hardy et al., "Self-Sufficiency at Ages 27-33 Years: Factors Present Between Birth and 18 Years that Predict Educational Attainment Among Children Born to Inner-City Families," Pediatrics, Vol. 99 (1997), pp. 80-87. http://www.hispeace.org/html/artic27.htm
Almost 50 percent of households with children undergoing divorce move into poverty following the divorce. Julia Heath, "Determinants of Spells of Poverty Following Divorce," Review of Social Economy, Vol. 49 (1992), pp. 305-315. http://www.hispeace.org/html/artic27.htm
In 2002, 72.9 million children under age 18 lived in the United States and represented 25 percent of the population, down from a peak of 36 percent at the end of the baby boom in 1964. Children are projected to be 24 percent of the population in 2020. http://www.childstats.gov/ac2004/pdf/pop.pdf.
In 1998, 26% lof America's children, lived in single - parent, “maintained by mother” households; 6% in “maintained by father” households.” U.S. Census Bureau; US Statistical Abstract, Table 76,
In 1998, only 68% of American children live with “two parent family groups” (down from 77% in 1980). U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, (estimated) http://www.prcdc.org/summaries/children/children.html
Only 57% of teens live in the same home with both of their natural parents. (1999) http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=Topic&TopicID=37
Between 1960 and 1990, the percentage of children living apart from their biological fathers more than doubled, from 17 percent to 36 percent. http://mensightmagazine.com/Articles/Popenoe/nofathers.htm
Children who are raised without their fathers account for 63 percent of youth suicides, 71 percent of pregnant teenagers, 90 percent of homeless and runaway children, 85 percent of behavioral disorders exhibited by children, and 71 percent of high school dropouts, in the United States. House Concurrent Resolution 147; [2001?]. https://fatherhood.safeserver.com/legislative.htm.
A child born to a single mother is twice as likely to drop out of high school, twice as likely to have a child before age twenty, and one and a half times as likely to be out of school and out of work in his/her late teens and early twenties. U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, (estimated) Executive Summary:Status of Children in America http://www.prcdc.org/summaries/children/children.html
The general health problems of children from broken homes increase by 20 to 30%, even when adjusting for demographic factors (economic status, etc.). Studies cited in "Twice as strong," The Christian American, March/April 1996, p. 28 http://www.leaderu.com/marco/marriage/gaymarriage5.html#ref221
Nearly one in six adolescents ages 12 to 19 were overweight in the United States in 1999-2002, more than triple the rate in 1976-1980. http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/indicators/15OverweightChildrenYouth.cfm
70% of children in state reform institutions grew up in single-parent or no-parent homes. "Be glad for the undoing of no-faults," Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, February 15, 1996, p. B-5. http://www.leaderu.com/marco/marriage/gaymarriage5.html#ref224
9THE STATE of OUR UNIONS 2004 marriage.rutgers.edu/Publications/SOOU/TEXTSOOU2004.htm
10.T.D. Eddins; http://www.geocities.com/tdeddins/CHAPTER01.htm