About 1.7 million babies were born to unmarried women in 2007, a 26 percent rise from 1.4 million in 2002 and more than double the number in 1980, according to the new report. Unmarried women accounted for 39.7 percent of all U.S. births in 2007 -- up from 34 percent in 2002 and more than double the percentage in 1980.
Which makes all of the Christianist (as opposed to Christian) blather about gay marriage destroying "real" marriage, and marriage being for the purpose of having and raising children, seem just sort of silly, doesn't it?
Gay marriage might actually lower the ~50% divorce rate. I think the "save marriage" people are on pretty shaky legs if these are their arguments.
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