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.
He estimates 5.7 million babies would have been born in the past decade if fertility rates hadn't fallen from pre-recession levels.Other experts are not concerned, predicting today's young women will catch up with childbearing later in their lives. The only two groups with slightly higher birth rates in 2018 were women in their late 30s and those in their early 40s.
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.
the State is now the nanny knows best anti abortion laws are meant to make more white babies occur.. but the males wont stay with the families and then the women left back are not paid equally.. so its a no brainer to have less kids. ask a Round..
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