Comparative Divorce and Childbirth Statistics: US and Sweden

Two related questions: 

#1. What percentages of marriages _with children_ end in divorce in
the US and in Sweden (i.e. don't count divorces for childless
marriages.)

#2.What percentage of children are born to unmarried mothers in the US
and in Sweden?

The total of these two answers should be roughly the percentage of
single-parent (single mother, in practice) households in each country.
There will be somenumber of couples who divorce after their children
are adults, but I am assuming that number is negligible.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 23 Feb 2005 05:02 PST

Hello.

It seems to me the final statistic you're looking for --
number/percent of single parent households -- might be more readily
obtainable for the US and Sweden than the other numbers (#1 and #2)
you asked about.

If I can find the final numbers -- without getting the intermediate
statistics you asked about -- would that meet your needs as an answer
to your question?

As a for instance, I've already found that there are 12,402,000
single-parent families in the US -- about 10.1 million single mothers,
and 2.3 million single dads.

Perhaps I can find similar numbers for Sweden.  Let me know if that's
of interest to you.

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by clay_shirky-ga on 23 Feb 2005 06:53 PST

Yes, there are rolled up stats for all single-parent households, but
I'm interested in comparative breakdowns, not jsut the rolled-up
numbers.

So I'm looking for the relative percentage of children of
never-married vs formerly married parents (mothers, in practice) in
Sweden vs the US. You can imagine the results as two two-item pie
charts presented side-by-side.