White Americans Have Been Brainwashed About Race: Lies We Tell Ourselves About Black Women

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9. In 2012 The birth rate for unmarried women of all races was 45.3

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The birth rate for unmarried women declined in 2012 for the
fourth consecutive year. The rate fell 2% from 2011 to 2012, to 45.3
births per 1,000 unmarried women aged 15–44, the lowest rate
since 2003 (Tables C, 15, and 16). The nonmarital birth rate was
13% lower in 2012 than in 2007 and 2008, when it was at its historic
peak of 51.8 per 1,000.
The percentage of all births to unmarried women was 40.7 in
2012, essentially stable for the third consecutive year. The number
of nonmarital births rose very slightly from 2011 (1,607,773) to
2012 (1,609,619). The 2012 total is 7% lower than the 2008 peak
(Table C).
Birth rates for unmarried women fell in 2012 for women in age
groups under 30; the rate was essentially unchanged for women
aged 30–34, and it increased to historic peaks for women aged
35 and over. The steepest declines were for teenagers, particularly
younger teenagers aged 15–17, whose rate dropped by 8% from
2011 (14.9) to 2012 (13.7). Although the majority of nonmarital births
are for women under age 25 (54% in 2012), this level has dropped
from 64% in 2002 (25).
Nonmarital birth rates declined for all race and Hispanic origin
population groups except API women, for whom the rate increased
by 2%, from 22.4 in 2011 to 22.9 per 1,000 in 2012. Despite this
increase, API women had the lowest rate of all race and Hispanic
origin groups in 2012. Hispanic women had the highest nonmarital
birth rate of all groups in 2012 (72.6) but also the largest percent
decline between 2011 and 2012, a 3% drop (from 75.1 in 2011).
Rates for non-Hispanic white women (32.1) and black women (62.6)
fell 1% and 2%, respectively, in 2012. All race and Hispanic origin
groups have experienced declines from the peak rates of 2007–
2008, with the largest decline for Hispanic women, down 29% (from
102.1 in 2007).
While the percentage of all births to unmarried women was
down slightly in 2012 (40.7) from its peak of 41.0% in 2009, it was
still more than twice the level in 1980, 18.4% (Table C). About 9 out of
10 births to teenagers aged 15–19 were nonmarital compared with
about 1 in 5 for women in their thirties. Almost two-thirds of births to
women aged 20–24 were nonmarital (64.8%)—the age group with
the highest number of nonmarital births (593,894).
The proportions of nonmarital births vary widely by race and
Hispanic origin. In 2012, the percentage of nonmarital births for
non-Hispanic black (72%) and AIAN (67%) mothers was more than
three times that of API mothers (17%) and more than twice that of
non-Hispanic white mothers (29%). A little more than one-half (54%)
of births to Hispanic mothers were to unmarried women. These
proportions were essentially unchanged from 2011.
More than one-half of all births in DC, Louisiana, Mississippi,
and New Mexico were to unmarried women in 2012 (Table I–4). Less
than one in five births in Utah (18.7%) were to unmarried mothers,
the lowest of any state. These geographic variations largely reflect
compositional differences by race and Hispanic origin among states.