Prof. Carbone Quoted in New York Times on Falling Non-Marital Birth Rates

Professor June Carbone was quoted in the New York Times Upshot column on the decline in the non-marital birth rates. She linked the result not just to an increase in older women having children, the main point of the story, but to a decline in the fertility rates of younger women. The large increase in non-marital birth occurred when women under the age of 25, who were often married because of a pregnancy, stopped marrying the fathers, but continued to have the child anyway. These women are now having fewer children.