Analysis of Current Population Survey data indicates that each successive cohort of white family heads born since 1944-48 faced an increasingly greater chance of being poor, even with the increase in female-headed families controlled. The black cohort effect is not significant, but period effects suggest that blacks' economic gains of the 1970s…

In over 500,000 pregnancies in 1980, abortions were more likely among White unmarried adult women than among Black; among Black married women than among White. Likelihood of abortion increased monotonically with increasing education, but only for unmarried women. Results were similar for a teenage sample. Contains 32 references. (SV)