Sentence examples for wedlock compared to from inspiring English sources
Just 8 percent of births to women over 18 with a college degree happen outside wedlock, compared to 57 percent of births to women with high school diplomas or less, according to Child Trends, which cited 2009 data.
According to the most recent statistics, more than 60%% of all children in eastern Germany are born out of wedlock, compared to 27%% of western German children (Kreyenfeld et al. 2011a; Pötzsch 2012).
Here I'd invite readers to examine figures 2, 3, 8, 12, 13 and 14 at the back of this year's National Marriage Report, all of which tell a similar story: The marriage rate's decline accelerated in the 2000s compared to the 1990s; so did the rise in the rate of out-of-wedlock births; and so did the rise in the rate of cohabitation, with and without children.
Roughly 7 percent of the white kids in the upper tribe are born out of wedlock, compared with roughly 45 percent of the kids in the lower tribe.
The independent Family Policy Studies Center published a report this week showing that 38percentt of babies are born out of wedlock, compared with 7.2percentt in 1964, and that the number of children living in one-parent homes has trebled in 25 years, to 4.4 million from 1.4 million.
Race makes a difference: only 2% of births to white college graduates are out-of-wedlock, compared with 80% among African-Americans with no more than a high-school education, but neither of these figures has changed much since the 1970s.
Significantly more of the teenagers were pregnant out of wedlock when compared with the older age group [ X2 = 29.14 p<0.001].
Smith also condemned the "legitimate rape" remarks from Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo)., but in the process whipped up his own furor with comments that sounded like he was comparing rape to pregnancy out of wedlock.
Although there is something chicken-and-egg about this, much of the change in attitudes is probably down to the fact that almost half of children are now born "out of wedlock", as the Telegraph still quaintly refers to it, compared with 8.4% in the year of my birth.
Born out of wedlock to the comtesse d'Albon, she was sent to convent school and made governess to the marquise de Vichy, her mother's legitimate daughter.
