Children of Cohabitation: Births in the Past Year to Married and Unmarried Partners

The American Communities Survey offers us a glimpse into the number of children born within the past year to married and unmarried parents. In addition, it also allows us to identify children born in the past year to unmarried, but partnered, females. The following table comes from the 2011  ACS Five Year Estimates for Herkimer and Oneida Counties.

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Note that about one in twenty females (ages 15 to 50) gave birth during this time frame - 5% in Herkimer County and 6% in Oneida County. Among those women, roughly 38% of births in the last year in Herkimer County were to unmarried women, and two thirds of those (or about 24% of ALL births) were to women with no partner in the household. In Oneida County, about 46% of births in the past year were to unmarried females, and roughly 3 out of 4 of those (overall about 33% of all births) were to females with no household partners.