28 PERCENT OF BIRTHS TO SINGLE MOTHERS

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, February 26, 1993                   TAG: 9302260100
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: A10   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short
28 PERCENT OF BIRTHS TO SINGLE MOTHERS
Murphy Brown has plenty of company.
A government health agency reported Thursday that the number of births to unmarried mothers hit a record high in 1990 of 1,165,384.
That was up 7 percent in a year and 75 percent over the decade, with more than one child in four - 28 percent - born to unmarried women.
The National Center for Health Statistics said there were almost 4.2 million births in 1990, more than in any year since 1962 when the post-World War II baby boom was drawing to a close.
But the agency said provisional data for 1991 and 1992 show a slight drop in births to about 4.1 million, "reflecting the aging of the baby boom women and fewer women in their 20s, the peak childbearing years."
- Associated Press
Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB