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...UNWED MOTHERS 37% Percentage of U.S. births in 2005 that were out of wedlock. In 1960 the rate was 5.3%. Today 47% of adults in their 30s and 40s have lived with a partner who was not their spouse 71% Percentage of people surveyed in a Pew Research study who believe that having children out of wedlock is a "big problem" for the U.S.; 44% believe it is "always or almost always wrong" for unmarried women to have children...
Percentage of people surveyed in a Pew Research study who believe that having children out of wedlock is a "big problem" for the U.S.; 44% believe it is "always or almost always wrong" for unmarried women to have children...
...program director at the Child Welfare League of America in Washington. The movement got a boost in 2002 when the American Academy of Pediatrics said the "health, adjustment and development" of kids adopted by gay parents were no worse than those of kids placed with heterosexuals. By 2006, a Pew Center poll found, support of gay adoption had risen from 38% in 1999 to 46% and opposition had fallen from...
...expected she would already be so busy. But "my phone started ringing the day after midterms and it hasn't stopped ringing since," says Smith, 30, the executive director of Young Voter Strategies (YVS). Her non-partisan organization, which she founded after the 2004 election with funding help from Pew and George Washington University, analyzes how to best mobilize young voters. That section of the electorate has traditionally been treated as an afterthought until weeks before the actual voting. But this time around top presidential contenders and political strategists are starting to focus early on the youth vote...
...nervous as can be," Kevin Curtis, legislative director for the Pew Campaign for Fuel Efficiency, said of the votes on renewable energy, fuel efficiency and coal-powered gasoline. "The thumbs-up/thumbs-down decision really does depend on the next votes." If the votes don't go their way, Curtis added, "there's really not much left in the bill to support...