Births to unwed moms rising, N. Europe beats US

ATLANTA - A new government report shows that though the rate of births to unmarried women in the United States has been rising sharply, it's way behind Northern European countries.

In the United States, about 4 in 10 births occur among unmarried women. Iceland is the leader with 6 in 10 births to unwed moms, and more than half of all births in Sweden and Norway are.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the U.S. and at least 13 other industrialized nations have seen big increases in the proportion of unmarried births since 1980.

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