Birth Rate

A Democracy of Diversity

Maya Wiley | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Racism, Census Bureau, Obama, Race, Demographics, Birth Rate, Bv-Politics, Obama Jeremiah Wright, Jeremiah Wright, Black Voices News

Reading about the Reverend Wright attack ads, it's clear to me that we are all still fearful of confronting our own racial anxieties. They remind me just how far we've come as a country but also how much further we need to go.

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Census: Minorities Now Surpass Whites In US Births

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Latino Birth Rate, Population Growth, US-Census-and-Minorities, Minority Births, US Census, Birth Rates, Immigration, Minority Population, US Birth Rate, U.S. Birth Rate, Minority Population Growth, Birth Rate, Minorities, Latino Voices News

WASHINGTON — For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady imm...

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Too Poor To Have Kids

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Video, Fertility Rates, Too Poor to Have Kids, Birth Rate 2011, Birth Rates, Birth Rate u.s. 2011, Birth Rate United States, Birth Rate U.S., Birth Rate, Fertility Rate, Fertility Rate 2011, Money News

Young Americans are just too poor to have kids. The number of children born in the U.S. has plunged 8 percent since its all-time high in 2007, acco...

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It's A Dragon! China Expects Baby Boom During Lucky Year

Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Chinese New Year, Video, Taiwan, Dragon Babies, Year of the Dragon, Hong Kong, Dragon Baby Boom, Lunar New Year, China, Birth Rate, World News

Dragon babies are expected to hit China in droves this year, but there won't be any scales, fire-breathing, or mythical creatures involved. "Dragon...

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Asia Expects To See A Dragon Baby Boom

AP | By ANNIE HUANG | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Chinese New Year, Year of the Dragon, Taiwan Birth Rate, Asian Baby Boom, Dragon Babies, Birth Rate, Taiwan Fertility Rate, Parents News

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, but you wouldn't know that from visiting the obstetrics department at Taiwan ...

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Central Reservations

Lord Victor Adebowale | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Russia, Population, Elderly, Ed Milliband, UK Politics, The Squeezed Middle, Recession, Middle Classes, Birth Rate, Labour, Home News

The increase in the numbers of graduates has shown that the UK can produce large numbers of high-skilled people. A common criticism of university graduates is that they end up doing jobs that do not require a degree. What is needed is not fewer graduates, but an increase both in high-skilled jobs and in employers who are prepared to take responsibility for developing their staff to get them into these jobs.

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Parents, Teens and Sex: An Ongoing Conversation

Laura Stepp | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Sex, Teenage Sex, Teens, Amy Schalet, Contraception, Teen Birth Rate, Birth Rate, Parents, Teen Sex Education, Teen Sex, Parents News

When Dutch teens think they're ready to have sex with a boyfriend or girlfriend, their parents, some of them reluctantly, encourage the couple to do so at home. These situations, while novel to me, were treated with indifference by Western Europeans.

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Black Women Putting Off Babies Because Of Recession: Are You?

Madame Noire | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Bv-Life, Bv-Parenting, Recession, Birth Rate, Black Voices News

Birth rates among black women have dropped 2.4 percent as a result of the recession. Overall, preliminary data from 2010 show birthrates have dropped ...

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Is China Cooking The Books In The Most Recent Census?

Economic Observer/Worldcrunch | Yi Fuxien | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: China Demographic, China Census, Birth Rate, China, World News

China's just released 10-year census shows the country's population total at 1.3397 billion people. Compared with the last census conducted in 2000, t...

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Weekly Pulse: Egg Salad Surprise! Congress Votes to Clean Up Food Supply

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Second Trimester, The American Prospect, Statistics, Community Health Center, Reproductive Rights, Food Safety, Fertility, Cdc, change.org, Peanut Butter, Republican, Egg, Clinic, Mother Jones, Dan Peterson, Teen Pregnancy, Affordable Care Act, Aca, Grist, Paul Waldman, Birth Rate, Abortion, Women, Judy Shackleford, Abstinence, The Progressive, Democrat, Omnibus Spending Bill, Tom Philpott, Feministing, Choice, Wisconsin, Food Safety and Modernization Act, Madison, Food, Medicare, Siddhartha Mahanta, Home News

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger It's a Christmas-week miracle! The Senate, in a vote that astonished everyone, brought the Food Safe...

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India Fights Population Boom With Cash Payments To Couples Who Delay Babies

New York Times | JIM YARDLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Population, Women's Rights, India, Natural Resources, Two Year Policy, Reproductive Rights, Overpopulation, Reproductive Health, Contraception, Female Literacy, Birth Rate, China, World News

...If youth is India's advantage, the sheer size of its population poses looming pressures on resources and presents an enormous challenge for an alre...

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Happy Grandparents Day (No Need to Mail a Card)

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Poverty, Divorce, Grandparents Day, Fertility, Real Estate, Grandparents, Recession, Birth Rate, Family, Healthy Living News

This year on Grandparents Day, more children might want to honor their grandparents, but they won't need to mail a card to do it. So far the recessi...

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Baby Boom Has Gone Bust

Tom Silva | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: National Center for Health Statistics, Census Bureau, Gynecology, Great Recession, Pew Research Center, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Obstetrics, Birth Control, Illinois-Department-of-Healthcare-and-Family-Services, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, Babies, Birth Rate, Guttmacher Institute, Great Depression, Healthy Living News

One unexpected side effect of economic hard times is a sharp decline in birth rates. In Illinois, for example, the birth rate has fallen to its lowes...

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Post-Fertile Boomers Push The Birth Rate Drop

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Birth Rates, Low Birth Rate, Parenting, US Birth Rate, U.S. Birth Rate, Birth Rate, Birth Rate America, Healthy Living News

As older folks continue to stick around longer and longer, it negatively affects the birth rate because the proportion of infertile people is increasing.

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Are Low Birth Rates a Milestone or a Tipping Point?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Education, Fertility, Real Estate, Teen Birth Rate, Consumption, Savings, Recession, Birth Rate, Great Depression, Culture, Healthy Living News

Reaching a data point such as the lowest-birth-rate-ever is a milestone. It's not a tipping point unless it leads to accelerating change in the same direction.

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U.S. Birth Rate At Record Low, Experts Blame Recession

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Birth Rate Recession, Low Birth Rate, Birth Rate U.S., US Birth Rate, U.S. Birth Rate, Birth Rate, Birth Rate America, Parenting, Healthy Living News

Forget the Dow and the GDP. Here's the latest economic indicator: The U.S. birth rate has fallen to its lowest level in at least a century as many peo...

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A Baby Bust? Recession Brings U.S. Birth Rate To Lowest Level In A Century

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birth Rate During Recession, Recession, Birth Rate, National Center for Health, Business News

By Marilynn Marchione, AP Medical Writer: Forget the Dow and the GDP. Here's the latest economic indicator: The U.S. birth rate has fallen to its ...

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In Down Economy, Older Moms' Births Still Up In US

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Economy, CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, Motherhood, Pregnancy, Teen Birth Rate, Babies, Premature Births, Mothers, Teen Moms, Older Moms, Postponing Babies, Economic Recession, Preemies, Pew Research Center, Birth Rate, Healthy Living News

ATLANTA — U.S. births fell in 2008, probably because of the recession, updated government figures confirm. The one exception to the trend was th...

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Pushing Babies: The Assault on Childless Women

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Infertility, Fertility-Anxiety, Birth Control, Fertility, Teen Birth Rate, Childless Women, Babies, Women's Work, Birth Rate, Politics, Living News, Media, Media News

Because fertility is experienced as a very personal issue, it ends up getting very little critical discussion. Time for an honest exploration of the dynamics of birth timing and women's work, especially in our recession.

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A Domestic Proposal: No More Babies

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Longevity, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Satire, Work-Life Balance, Jonathan Swift, Jon Kyl, No More Babies, Birth Rate, Politics News

Senator Jon Kyl made headlines recently by proposing that maternity care shouldn't be covered by health insurance because he didn't need it. When S...

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Birth Rate Falling As A Result Of The Recession

nytimes.com | SAM ROBERTS | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Birth Rate Economy, Birth Rate Falling, Birth Rate Recession, Recession, Birth Rate, Healthy Living News

For the first time since the decade began, Americans are having fewer babies, and some experts are blaming the economy. "It's the recession," said ...

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