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Report: Nearly 40% of Women Have Never Been Married

By UCN on March 22, 2012 7:17 AM

Nearly 40% of women have never been married, and fewer are in a first marriage, according to a new government report that takes a detailed look at first marriages and their chances for survival.

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Divorce Rate Among Baby Boomers Surges

By UCN on March 2, 2012 5:46 AM

Katie Dunn, 55, who has two children including her son Fergus, 13, was divorced last summer. (Stacey Cramp for The New York Times)

On the day she decided to sell her wedding ring, Katie Dunn tucked the gleaming band into a Ziploc bag. The ring had been designed for her nearly two decades earlier, with swirls of yellow and white gold symbolizing the romance she had prayed would endure. But as she approached her 60s, her dreams and her marriage dissolved in resentment and regret.

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Motherhood Without Marriage More Common In America Than Ever Before

By UCN on February 18, 2012 7:56 AM

Amber Strader, an unmarried mother of two, kisses her 18-month-old daughter Arianna Fickey at their home in Lorain, Ohio. Strader said she'd like to get married, "but I just don't see it happening right now." (Nicole Bengiveno / New York Times)

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 U.S. women younger than 30 occur outside marriage.

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Interracial Marriages In America Climb to 4.8 Million

By UCN on February 16, 2012 6:38 AM

Interracial marriages in the U.S. have climbed to 4.8 million - a record 1 in 12 - as a steady flow of new Asian and Hispanic immigrants expands the pool of prospective spouses. Blacks are now substantially more likely than before to marry whites.

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Me Marry? Why Cohabitation Is On the Rise In America

By UCN on February 8, 2012 7:15 PM

There are plenty of health benefits to marriage that those just living with a partner don't have, but we're afraid of the possibility of collapse.

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Divorce 'Significantly' Raises Risk of Early Death

By UCN on January 12, 2012 4:24 AM

Getting a divorce?

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Barely Half of U. S. Adults Interested in Marrying

By UCN on December 20, 2011 4:19 PM

In this Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011 photo, Erin Turner poses for a photo in her apartment in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

As a 20-something, Erin Turner feels she made all the right moves dating wise. She graduated from college and spent three and a half years with a boyfriend before they moved in together.

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Marriage Rates Hit Record Low

By UCN on December 14, 2011 7:46 PM

When it comes to saying "I do," more and more Americans seem to really mean, "Not so much," according to a new analysis of the increasingly troubled institution of marriage.

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