One more reason to encourage your children to attend college!
The 2010 edition of “The State of Our Unions”, released by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values, indicates highly educated Americans are “embracing a pro-marriage mindset” even as middle Americans lose faith in the institution.
The findings show moderately educated women, or those with a high school diploma and some post-secondary education but no four-year degree, are choosing the single life!
College chicks aren’t only choosing marriage, but choosing to wait to have kids until after they meet that special somebody.
The report says in the 1980’s only 2% of babies were born out of wedlock to highly educated mothers, compared to the 33% of moderately educated mothers having a child while still single.
These days highly educated women having children out of wedlock has only increased to 6%, while the moderately educated single women having children has jumped to 44%!
Bradford Wilcox, who authorized the study, says of educated women waiting till marriage to start popping out babies:
“Children are much more likely to thrive if they are raised in a married home with their own mother and father.”
We totally agree! We think it’s important for a child to be born into a stable, loving home, but we also think that a mother doesn’t need to have a bachelor’s degree to love her child!
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