Seattle lowest unwed motherhood rate in nation, and smartest city too (Snohomish: 2013, neighborhoods)

[usernametaken]

Seattle named smartest city in North America | The Today File | Seattle Times

Seattle has lowest rate of unwed motherhood among U.S. big cities | FYI Guy | Seattle Times

[Hemlock140]

The two are probably related.

[Gurbie]

Originally Posted by Hemlock140

The two are probably related.

Not in the "unwed mothers are dumb" sense. But there is a causal chain. More like higher intelligence correlates with higher education levels, which result in higher salaries and higher social status with more access to health care and family planning (including access to abortion).

Result: fewer unwanted/unplanned pregnancies, and fewer unwed mothers.

[jjinla]

Demographics has an awful lot to do with it, whether anyone wants to accept it or not.

Look at the top 10 list. Sad that little has changed for some.

[Prince Mongo]

Cue the opening scene to "Idiocracy"

[seattlenextyear]

To be fair, Seattle has a pretty low rate of motherhood: wed or unwed.

Something about there being more dogs than babies.

[strad]

Originally Posted by seattlenextyear

To be fair, Seattle has a pretty low rate of motherhood: wed or unwed.

Something about there being more dogs than babies.

But the study lists the percentage of babies born to an unwed mother. Number of babies is irrelevant, as non-existent babies aren't counted in the study

From the article:

"Census data show in 2012, just 15 percent of Utah women who had given birth in the past 12 months were unmarried — less than half the U.S. average."

and

"Of the 75 largest U.S. cities, Seattle has the smallest percentage of births to unmarried women.According to the most recent census data, Seattle’s rate of non-marital births is, in fact, even lower than Utah’s – just 14 percent."

[skidamarink]

That's just in the city limits, I'm guessing. Pretty sure once you get out into the South King County and Snohomish Co suburbs those statistics change drastically.

Guess the point of the story is uneducated, unwed mothers can't afford to live in the city of Seattle?

[BellevueNative]

Originally Posted by skidamarink

That's just in the city limits, I'm guessing. Pretty sure once you get out into the South King County and Snohomish Co suburbs those statistics change drastically.

Guess the point of the story is uneducated, unwed mothers can't afford to live in the city of Seattle?

Suuuuure, and I'm sure there are no unwed mothers in Lake City, Central District, Rainier Valley and Beacon Hill. I think people tend to forget about those neighborhoods, which are also in the Seattle city limits.

[509]

Here is the authors methodology.

I blended data from publicly available sources, with this primary data provided by some of the eligible cities in an effort to enhance the accuracy of the 2013 rankings. Therefore the results of the North American rankings include data from: the Innovation Cities Index, Brookings Metro Monitor for the Smart Economy measurement; Corporate Knights, Siemens and the Green Building Councils for Smart Environment; Digital Governance Rankings from Rutgers and open databases counted from municipal open data sites for Smart Governance; ranking data from Mercer and Monocle for Smart Living; modal share data from various sources and bike sharing data from Bike-Sharing World Map for Smart Mobility; and Citi Hot Spots and GINI inequality index data for assessing Smart People.

Bicycles for Smart Mobility!!! GINI inequality index for Smart People!!! Green Building Councils for Smart Environment!!!

Really??? So if you destroy your environment with green buildings it is OK?? Is this why the destruction of scare habitat by industrial wind areas is OK??