College-educated men in no hurry to be dads.

PositionFatherhood - Brief article

Men who have a college degree are far more likely to delay parenthood than men who are less educated, points out a Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C., analysis of data from the National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Md.

Among dads ages 22 to 44, 70% of those with less than a high school diploma say they fathered their first child before the age of 25. By comparison, 45% of fathers with some college experience became dads by that age. The likelihood of becoming a young father plummets for those with a bachelor's degree or more: just 14% had their first child prior to age 25.

On the flip side, among dads with less than a high school diploma, a mere nine percent entered fatherhood between ages 3044 but, among men with a bachelor's degree or more, 44% became a dad between ages...

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