Did you realize that nearly half the babies born in East Central Illinois are to single women?
We asked the three largest hospitals in the area to keep track of their births in March, for instance, and found that 47 percent of the women who gave birth in Champaign and Vermilion counties were unmarried. Most were white, aged 15 to 39. Public aid paid for most of the births to unwed moms.
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