
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 4) February 7
In This Issue: A recent Financial Times article, referencing work from the Institute of Family Studies, highlighted the main cause of declining fertility rates: falling marriage rates. While the public perceives that unmarried births are increasing and marriage is fading, in reality, the share of births to unmarried parents in the U.S. is slowly decreasing. Marriage, still a strong predictor of fertility behavior globally, remains important for having children.