Our current look into the changing times and mores as far as grandbooming is concerned, we'd like some feedback from grandboomers who are grandparents of children born of unmarried parents. It may surprise you to learn that in the first half of the Nineties, more than half (53% to be precise) of firstborns of women 15 to 29 were conceived out of wedlock. Chivalry and shotgun weddings must still hold a place in society because in only 41% of those situations were the children born out of wedlock.
These US Census figures also revealed that young pregnant women of today are thinking twice before rushing into a marriage. Today, less than half (23%) decide to marry before the birth of their child. Years ago, that percentage was over 50.
Whether you have a grandchild born out of wedlock, or an opinion about the situation, we'd like to hear if you would treat this child any differently. Look at the subject from all sides...from visits, to gifts, to love and affection, to inheritance.
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