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Never-married mothers now head more than half of all AFDC households.
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.
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.
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to Faludi's acknowledgements, Backlash began as a story for the San Jose Mercury News's Sunday magazine debunking an unpublished academic study by David Bloom, a Harvard economist, and Patricia Craig, a Yale graduate student, purporting to show that never-married college-educated women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 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.