Children or college? The debate around millennials and single parenthood

Young, unwed mothers are more likely to lack a degree, a new study says, but the data of 'economic despair' remains contested

• College costs expose the false meritocracy of the American dream
  
• Millennials talk marriage: for richer and for poorer
  

Feeling blue about your work prospects, about money and your future?

Have a baby. It will give you a purpose, and make you feel better.

If marriage retains its place anywhere, it would be among the college graduates, because most of them do not begin to have children until after they are married."

Analysis by National Center for Families and Marriage Research revealed that … women who did not finish high school have the lowest marriage rate of all, at 28%.