For women under 30, Most births occur outside marriage

The article, For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage is about how for the last few decades most women under the age of thirty are having kids without being married first.  Then it goes on to say it was looked down upon, how nowadays marriage is a luxury, and how this affects the kids involved.  This article expresses the change over time and how this change (women having kids without being married) happened after women started feeling independent.  The first paragraph says, “It used to be called illegitimacy. Now it is the new normal. After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold: more than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage.”  This is also weird because I would expect most out of marriage women having children to be African American women.  I say that because it is just a stereotype I always hear.

I also want to say I don’t see anything wrong with this because not everyone wants to get married.  Some people have a problem that makes them more eligible to have kids.  No one ever writes these things in articles they just always look at the negative side to the story.   I find this article stupid on so many levels because of this comment, “The shift is affecting children’s lives. Researchers have consistently found that children born outside marriage face elevated risks of falling into poverty, failing in school or suffering emotional and behavioral problems.”  When I was born my parents weren’t married and im just fine my grades can prove it.