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NCHS data brief: Changing patterns of nonmarital childbearing in the US

Posted May 20th, 2009 by Tara Murray in Fertility, US Demography

Changing patterns of nonmarital childbearing in the United States, released Monday by the National Center for Health Statistics, reports that childbearing by unmarried women has risen, and the increase has come from women in their 20s and older. The report uses data from the Natality Data File and the National Vital Statistics System.

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