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According to Faludi's acknowledgements, Backlash began as a story for the San Jose Mercury News's Sunday magazine debunking an unpublished academic study by David Bloom, a Harvard economist, and Patricia Craig, a Yale graduate student, purporting to show that never-married college-educated women faced, at age 30, only a 20 percent chance of getting hitched in their lifetimes.
By 1994, children of never-married mothers accounted for almost two-thirds of the caseload, compared with only 30 percent for children of divorced or separated parents, and 2 percent for the children of widows.
Never-married mothers now head more than half of all AFDC households.
By 1975, children of divorced or separated parents accounted for the majority of cases (about 56 percent), while the children of never-married mothers made up another third.
Thus, the increasing percentage of never-married mothers on welfare probably has increased the length of time the average welfare mother stays on the rolls.