First-time moms with bachelor’s degrees more likely to be married than those without. Learn more in this America Counts story.





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More First-Time Moms Live With an Unmarried Partner

About a quarter (24%) of women who had their first child from 2020 to 2024 lived with an unmarried partner, up from around 17% in the early 1990s, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report.

But a smaller share of women had their first child while neither married nor living with a partner, dropping from roughly 20% to about 15% in 30 years.

During the same time, the estimated share of first-time mothers who were married at the time of birth remained at approximately 60%.

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Over the years, it also became more common among women with a bachelor’s degree or higher to be married at first birth, with the share jumping from about 75% in the early 1990s to roughly 85% this decade.

From 2020 to 2024, only about 4% of first-time mothers with a bachelor’s degree or higher were neither married nor living with a partner, and roughly 11% were cohabiting.

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