Only 46 percent of children in the United States will reach age 17 having grown up in a home with biological parents who are married — a figure that has a significant impact on the nation’s graduation, poverty and teenage birth rates, according to a new report.
“We have never faced anything like this in human history,” said the Family Research Council’s Pat Fagan, one of the co-authors of the study.
Compiled by Fagan and psychologist Nicholas Zill and released by the Family Research Council’s Marriage & Religion Research Institute, the data shows that:
— The intact family rate is highest in the Northeast (49.6 percent) and lowest in the South (41.8)
— Minnesota (57) and Utah (56.5) have the highest intact family rate among all 50 states, with Mississippi (34 percent) the lowest.
— Asians (65.8) have the highest rate among ethnic and racial classes, blacks (16.7) the lowest.
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SOURCE: Baptist Press
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