Birth Rates

Census: Minorities Now Surpass Whites In US Births

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 05.17.2012

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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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Health and Work in the Age of Aging

Michael Hodin | Posted 04.06.2012

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Michael Hodin

As life-spans routinely stretch into the 80s and 90s and as birth rates continue to drop to unprecedented lows, the importance of maintaining health as we age becomes even more crucial.

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Too Poor To Have Kids

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.27.2012

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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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Are Gays and Divorce Destroying the Welfare States?

James Peron | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Abortion, Gay Rights, Divorce, Birth Rates, Janice Crouse, Religious Right, Welfare States, Gay Marriage, Concerned Women for America, Politics News
James Peron

Considering the emphasis religious-right groups put on same-sex marriage, I thought it useful to check birth rates in nations at the time they instituted marriage equality and compare them to today. Has there been a difference in trends already in place?

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Young Moms Are Having Fewer Babies Than Ever

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 01.17.2012

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ATLANTA — The economy may well be the best form of birth control. U.S. births dropped for the third straight year – especially for young ...

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States With The Oldest And Youngest Residents

24/7 Wall St. | Michael B. Sauter, Douglas A. McIntyre | Posted 07.10.2011

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All fifty states will not carry the US economy to a recovery, if it can recover entirely at all. A careful look at the patterns of aging, births, and ...

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Fertility Up, Among Women 40-Plus

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 06.01.2011

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Elizabeth Gregory

When/if there's an economic upswing, will births resurge, and will the effect ripple upward across age brackets?

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Could Demographic Trends Cripple Europe by 2050?

Rory Fitzgerald | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rory Fitzgerald

New figures bear out a looming demographic crisis in Europe. Not since the Black Death have we seen populations collapse like this.

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Spanish Expectant Mothers Race To Give Birth Before New Year To Claim $3,303 'Cheque Bebe'

Posted 05.25.2011

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A new round of public spending cuts in Spain has many expectant women scrambling to give birth before the end of the year, the Guardian is reporting. ...

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Post-Fertile Boomers Push The Birth Rate Drop

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 11.17.2011

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Elizabeth Gregory

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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Why Are American Women Having More Children?

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011

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Philip N. Cohen

Even if the declining employment rates for women don't reflect general support for "opting out," the cultural elevation of women who choose to stay home with their kids is palpable.

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Births Up -- No, Down!: Stats and the Politics of Fertility Anxiety

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

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Elizabeth Gregory

Anxiety helps put pressure on women to have babies now, at whatever age -- along with the recent highly politicized decreases in access to birth control, especially for younger women.

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More Women Are Having Fewer Children, If At All

Posted 05.25.2011

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