The Family Losing Out: Unmarried Childbirths See Dramatic Rise in USA

 
A 13 percent increase since 1990 in children born out of wedlock! Is there any doubt regarding the direction our societies are moving?

Study: Older, unmarried, educated moms on rise

While most women giving birth are doing it within the context of marriage, researchers said a record 41 percent of births were to unmarried women in 2008. That's up from 28 percent in 1990, according to the study, "The New Demography of American Motherhood." The trend crossed major racial and ethnic groups.

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Dictums:

...the weakening of family solidarity; the laxity in parental control;...the irresponsible attitude towards marriage and the consequent rising tide of divorce... —these appear as the outstanding characteristics of a decadent society, a society that must either be reborn or perish.
(Shoghi Effendi WOB 187-188)

“The vitality of men’s belief in God,” Bahá’u’lláh has testified, “is dying out in every land; nothing short of His wholesome medicine can ever restore it. The corrosion of ungodliness is eating into the vitals of human society; what else but the Elixir of His potent Revelation can cleanse and revive it?"
(quoted in Shoghi Effendi WOB 181)