Relationship and family statistics include the national birth rate, average age at first sexual intercourse, teen and nonmarital pregnancy rates, and percent of children living in various family formations.
Youth
The articles and reports below help explain and document the life experiences of children and adolescents, especially in relation to their family life and behaviors, such as sexual activity, that can impact their future family formation.
Children
- NHMRC Fact Sheet: Living Arrangements of Children in the United States over Time (PDF - 116 KB)
- Marriage from a Child’s Perspective: How does Family Structure Affect Children and What Can we do about it? (PDF - 96 KB)
- The National Center for Children in Poverty’s Searchable 50 State Demographics Tool
- Child Trends’ Data Bank: Family Structure
- Who are America’s Poor Children? (PDF - 231 KB)
- Child Trends’ Data Bank: Child Development
- Men’s Pregnancy Intentions and Prenatal Behavior: What they Mean for Father’s Involvement with Their Children (PDF - 236 KB)
- America’s Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Child Wellbeing
Adolescents
- The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy’s Searchable Database: Information on teen demographics, sexual activity, pregnancy and risk behaviors.
- The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy: Fact Sheets
- Freeze Frame: A Snapshot of America’s Teens (PDF - 1 MB)
- Trends and Recent Estimates: Contraceptive Use among US Teens (PDF - 2 MB)
- Trends and Recent Estimates: Sexual Activity among US Teens (PDF - 1 MB)
- Child Trend’s Databank: Teenage Sexual Activity and Pregnancy
- Annie E. Casey’s Kids Count Database
- Census Bureau Reports (PDF - 677 KB)
- National Center for Health Statistics: Analysis of the National Survey for Family Growth
- Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, 2002, and Use of Contraception and Use of Family Planning Services in the United States, 1982-2002 (PDF - 2 MB)
- Recent Trends in Teenage Pregnancy in the United States
- Teens Delaying Sexual Activity: Using Contraception More Effectively
- Juvenile Delinquency and Family Structure: Implications for Marriage and Relationship Education (PDF - 652 KB)
Cohabitation
Cohabitation refers to many different relationship types and levels of commitment but generally refers to unmarried couples living at least part of the time in the same dwelling. The articles and links below may use different definitions of a cohabiting relationship.
- NHMRC Fact Sheet: Attitudes toward Cohabitation (PDF - 106 KB)
- The Relationship Context of Births outside of Marriage: The Rise of Cohabitation (PDF - 144 KB)
- Measuring the Formation and Dissolution of Marital and Cohabiting Unions in Federal Surveys (PDF - 100 KB)
- Cohabitation, Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage in the United States (PDF - 5 MB)
Child Birth
Child birth statistics often include parental age at first birth, number of total children a woman is likely to have (total fertility rate), her marital status at birth, and the rates of childbirth for women by age.
- NHMRC Fact Sheet: Trends in Nonmarital Birth Rates (PDF - 109 KB)
- The Relationship Context of Births outside of Marriage: The Rise of Cohabitation (PDF - 144 KB)
- Births outside of Marriage: Perceptions versus Reality (PDF - 128 KB)
- Men who Father Children with More than One Woman: A Contemporary Portrait of Multi-Partner Fertility (PDF - 2 MB)
- National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy Fact Sheet: Unwanted Pregnancy (PDF - 455 KB)
- Fast Facts on Birth
- Birth Data from the National Center on Health Statistics
- Indicators of Marriage and Fertility in the United States From the American Community Survey, 2000 to 2003
- Fertility, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health of U.S. Women: Data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (PDF - 5 MB)
- Births: Preliminary Data from 2005
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