The 72 percent majority of Americans believe moral values in the U.S. are getting worse, according to Gallup. But it's not hard to find statistics that suggest otherwise. Case in point: the percentage of fathers age 15 to 44 whose first birth was nonmarital is lower today than it was in the 1980s or 1990s...
Fathers aged 15 to 44 whose first birth was nonmarital
2000-2009: 36%
1990-1999: 40%
1980-1989: 42%
Source: National Center for Health Statistics, Three Decades of Nonmarital First Births among Fathers Aged 15-44 in the United States
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