Amid a New Baby Boom, a Jump in Adult Unwed Mothers

Somewhere Dan Quayle is clenching his fists. Two decades after the then-vice president bemoaned single motherhood — calling out the sitcom Murphy Brown for having its eponymous main character choose to have a child on her own — the latest data on U.S. births show that a full 40% of babies are now born to unmarried mothers

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