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If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! They keep telling us the world’s population is growing, but America isn’t part of that boom. Three decades ago, just one woman out of ten in her forties was childless. Today, that number has doubled. Fully 20% of America’s women have never had a baby. Of course, it’s not possible to have “part of” a child, but the average woman who does bear children, has only 1.86—more than one child fewer than our 1970s counterparts. If you average America’s children over ALL households (including the ones that don’t actually have any kids), there is just .9 of a baby born to each one. In some ways, we are becoming more responsible parents. We aren’t overpopulating the planet and stretching our limited resources even further. The highest birth level in 2006... [read full story]
