"Unmarried Women Now Drive America’s Fertility Trends, And They’re Having Fewer Kids"

"Because America increasingly depends on unmarried women—not married women—to drive its sagging fertility rate.

Twenty years ago the majority of U.S. women of childbearing age were married women. Today, the majority (58%) are unmarried, according to the CDC.

“It’s really what the unmarried segment is doing that is going to drive the overall rate,” says Sally Curtin, a CDC demographer and health statistician."
http://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-REB-33447

Hmm