Millennial moms are mostly single



The number is actually rising | Wednesday June 18th Send To A Friend Subscribe to TIME magazine 12 THINGS TO KNOW NOW   Militants Attack Iraq Oil Refinery Extremists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria attacked the country's largest oil refinery that accounts for more than a quarter of Iraq's entire refining capacity, a top security official said on Wednesday, as the U.S. weighs its strategy for countering the insurgency       Two States Carry Out First Executions Since Botched Injection A Georgia inmate who had been convicted of rape and murder was executed on Tuesday night, marking the first since a botched lethal injection in April raised new concerns about capital punishment, and another in Missouri was put to death soon afterward       There Is a Fast Track Through College A new movement is underway to speed up the pace at which students get through college—allowing for an associate's degree in a year rather than two and a bachelor's in three, not four—to save them and taxpayers money as well as improve low graduation rates, because the longer it takes students to reach the finish line, the less likely they will       More Millennial Mothers Are Single Than Married Researchers who have been tracking the decline of marriage as an individual's milestone or goal in life—love, then marriage, then a baby—find in a new study that only one-third of mothers in their late twenties are married and the number of millennial single mothers is actually rising       Dick Cheney Slams Obama's Policy on Iraq Former Vice President Dick Cheney called out President Obama's foreign policy decisions amid the chaos unfolding in Iraq by holding him responsible for gains made by Sunni insurgents and saying that an American leader has rarely been "so wrong about so much"       What You Should Expect at Amazon's Phone Announcement       Senate Confirms First Openly Gay Black Man to Federal Bench       U.S. Aims for Trial of Captured Benghazi Suspect       Colin Firth Won't Voice Paddington Bear in New Film       Japan Finally Bans Child Pornography       Facebook Hopes Slingshot Is the New Snapchat       Russia, South Korea Hold to 1-1 in World Cup Match       To Unsubscribe You have received this e-mail because you are subscribed to this newsletter from TIME.com. Unsubscribe here. Email Opt-Outs Click here for more information on how to opt-out of marketing communications from us and our partners, or copy and paste this link into your browser: http://timeinc.net/subs/privacy/td/emailprivacy.html Privacy Policy Please read our Privacy Policy, or copy and paste this link into your browser: http://timeinc.net/subs/privacy/td/policy.html For Further Communication, Please Contact: TIME Customer Service 3000 University Center Drive Tampa, FL 33612-6408   Connect with Time