Fewer babies as U.S. birth rate fails to rebound with economy

The provisional report, released Wednesday and based on more than 99% of U.S. birth records, found 3.788 million births last year. It was the fourth year the number of births has fallen, the lowest since 1986 and a surprise to some experts given the improving economy.

"I keep expecting to see the birth rates go up and then they don't," said demographer Kenneth M. Johnson of University of New Hampshire's Carsey School of Public Policy. "Our fertility rates are still quite high for a wealthy nation," said Caroline Sten Hartnett, a demographer at the University of South Carolina.

Young Americans still want to have children, but they don't feel stable enough to have them yet, said Karen Benjamin Guzzo, who studies families at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

Thank god!🙏🏼

Oh thank god. If he won't send the asteroid we deserve, at least we can start shrinking the population ourselves.

Maybe if their abortion rate would stop going up....

Well in Canada to compensate this sort of thing we don't build walls we leave the door wide open! With a flashing sign that say walk on through!!

Hopefully there mostly Trump supporters.

No shit. Most of us can't afford to have kids before 30, and even then it would be tough.

The American abortion rate is at an all-time low too. muchadoaboutnothing

The birth rates will go lower if everyone listens to Alyssa Milano.

And in Canada?

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