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Why Americans Aren’t Having Babies
The costs and rising expectations of parenthood are making young people think hard about having any children at all
By Rachel Wolfe / WSJ
Americans aren’t just waiting longer to have kids and having fewer once they start—they’re less likely to have any at all.
The shift means that childlessness may be emerging as the main driver of the country’s record-low birthrate.
Women without children, rather than those having fewer, are responsible for most of the decline in average births among 35- to 44-year-olds during their lifetimes so far, according to an analysis of the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey data by University of Texas demographer Dean Spears. Childlessness accounted for over two-thirds of the 6.5% drop in average births between 2012 to 2022.
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