Greater than half of American girls of their prime childbearing years haven’t had kids, in keeping with a new examine from the Carsey Faculty of Public Coverage on the College of New Hampshire.
The analysis exhibits that 52 % of ladies aged 20-39 haven’t given delivery as of 2024. Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer at Carsey, discovered that whereas there are 4 million extra girls on this age group in comparison with 2006, 7 million fewer have change into moms. This has resulted in 11.8 million fewer infants born over the previous 17 years than anticipated based mostly on earlier fertility charges.
“These fertility and child-bearing choices have implications for well being care, faculties, child-related companies, and ultimately for the labor drive,” Johnson says.
Johnson factors to a number of elements contributing to this development, together with financial points just like the Nice Recession, social adjustments comparable to elevated instructional and profession alternatives for ladies, and the rising prices of housing and childcare.
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