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Risking the Future Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing, Volume II Statistical Appendices only (1987) / Chapter Skim
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5. Marriage Among Pregnant Adolescents
Pages 95-100

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... The focus is on the mar ital status of the adolescent female at conception, at birth and after birth. The data presented in the following tables are f rom the Current Population Surveys (CPS)
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... 74.9 87.1* 1980 Total 99.4 94.2 97.3 97.0 82.8 91.1 White 99.4 93 O 6 97.0 96.7 81.5 90.4 Black 99.4 97.7 98.8 98.3 90.9 95.4 H ispanic 98.5 92.2 95.8 94.6 79.2 88.2 1981 Total 99.2 95.7 97.8 97.2 84.7 92.0 White 99.2 95.4 97.7 96.9 83.4 91.3 Black 99.6 97.0 98.6 98.8 92.7 96.4 Hispanic 99.2 91.8 96.3 95.3 74.0 86.7 1984 Total 99.7 96.8 98.5 98.0 87.1 93.4 White 99.6 96.5 98.3 97.7 85.2 92.4 Black 100.0 98.2 99.3 99.3 97.2 98.4 H ispanic 99.0 93.5 96.8 95.7 79.1 88.8 1985 Total 99.7 97.1 98.7 98.0 86.7 93.4 Hispanic persons may be of any race and Black and White totals may include Hispanics.
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... The proportion of females who were single rose by 28 percent for 18 and 19 year old women. The increasing tendency to remain single was more dramatic for black females aged 18 and 19 than for white and Hispanic females aged 18 and 19.
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... * 33.6 32.5 28.4 Conce ived/born out-of-wedlock 16.1 18.3 22.4 24.2 35.2 44.5 48.5 Conceived out-of wedlock/born in wedlock 14.0 21.0 23.6 30.4 31.2 23.0 23.1 White Women Aged 15-19 (1,120)
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... Prom 1950 to 1954 approximately 1 out of every 5 babies conceived out-of-wedlock was born out-of-wedlock; from 1980 to 1981, 3 out of every five premaritally pregnant white teens were still single at the birth of their first child. The proportion of all first born babies conceived and born out-of-wedlock to white women nearly quadrupled from 9 percent between 1950 and 1954 to 37 percent between 1980 and 1981.
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