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Definition of Nonmarital
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonmarital
Literary usage of Nonmarital
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing (1997)
"The following two tables provide observed and standardized nonmarital fertility (birth)
ratios for black and white women over the period 1960-1992. ..."
2. Hispanics and the Future of America by Marta Tienda, Faith Mitchell (2006)
"nonmarital childbearing in the United States, 1940-1999. (National Vital Statistics
Reports, vol. 48, No. 16.) Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health ..."
3. Health Status of Minorities & Low Income Groups by DIANE Publishing Company, Dept. of Health and Human Services, United States (1991)
"More than three in five (62.2 percent) births among Black women in 1987 were
nonmarital, compared to more than two in five (44.9 percent) among American ..."
4. Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion & Disease Prevention by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"Therefore, abstaining from further nonmarital sexual intercourse protects
adolescents from a variety of risks to health. Peers of the same gender are a ..."
5. Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics And the American Future by Marta Tienda, Faith Mitchell (2006)
"Out-of-wedlock childbearing among Puerto Ricans rose more slowly because, as with
blacks, their share of nonmarital births was already high in 1980. ..."
6. America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being edited by David Johnson (1999)
"... about the same level as observed in 1994-95.5 If 96 • The rise between 1960
and 1996 in the nonmarital birth rate is linked to an increase in the ..."
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